Lynn, At 04:04 12/11/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Well, I am going to open a panderers box. If you can tune by ear, why >would you even consider purchasing such a device??? I don't think it is >any faster, and I chip pianos as I string them, and after 3 tunings, in >the first sitting, the piano is stable. Lynn Rosenberg I'm in a particularly Monday mood this morning, so I'll stir up the hornet's nest a bit. This list is supposed to be a panderers box. Most of us on it pander to the wants and perceived needs of our customers with regard to acoustic keyboard instruments (that set of chord bars on the autoharp could be considered a keyboard, couldn't it). As far as _Pandora's Box_ is concerned... I'm an unreconstructed, unrepentant and unashamed aural tuner who has been saying the same thing for years. I'd also add that my wallet is not used to ever opening very widely. So, IOW, if you don't yourself see a need for something, you are highly unlikely to purchase it. (significant other pressure notwithstanding...) Or, to put it in the "bottom line" perspective, if you don't see any financial/physical/emotional advantage to having a machine take away some of the thousands of tuning decisions necessary to tune a piano, you won't buy it. That said, I have seen occasions where an ETD could have helped. *Tuning S&S D, Bald SD10 and SD6 together for performance of Bach Triple Klavier... *Touchup of harpsichord at intermission in noisy 1500 seat hall... *Touchup of S&S D at intermission in noisy 1500 seat hall... Snowsuit.. er.. ah.. flamesuit in place. Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician -mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Voice-(319)-387-1204 // Fax (319)-387-1076(Dept.office) Education is the best defense against the media.
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