---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 07:01 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Group, > > I wonder if we will ever see in our time that the RPT examine will be >done with an ETD alone. Someone stated that the EDT device is comparable to >the computer revolution. I think that this is true. Yes, I can add >24983987349873982987349873 + 20394803984029809384 divided by >2098098209830498309 and find the square root of this number in about 14 days >if I do it by had but a computer can find it in about .03 seconds. Sometimes >it is very hard to let go of the old way but the way computers develop they >will in time, if not already, be able to set a temperament better and faster >than our ears ever could. It is just a matter of time. > > Can you imagine this list a few hundred years from now. All of the ETD >tuners will be the old fogies and lord know what they will be tuning with. >Probably a laser tuning hammer that works by mind direction only. > >flame suit in place and standing near a fire hydrant. > >Leo Silverman When I started about 30 years ago, electronic tuners were the black sheep of the piano technician community. Now ETD's are well accepted and almost requisite by some. What_is_this world coming to... Cheer up, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e9/0f/2e/22/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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