The Final Result

[Richard Brekne]

Must dissagree emphatically.  The ability to turn and set a tuning pin is only a
small part of what a piano technician needs to know. Any person who can not tune
a piano useing aural skills alone is not a piano tuner in my book. Essential to
being a piano tuner is understanding and being able to execute a tuning by use of
tool # 1... the brain. This brain is interfaced to the instrument by the ears,
and the arms and hands do the adjusting that this brain decides upon.

If the brains behind a tuning lie within the machine, then the arms and hands are
simply an extension of that machine, just as they are an extension of the human
brain in the case of a real tuner.

Now you can yell and scream and call me all kinds of unsavory names... you can
copy these statements down and throw them at me in a few months taken totally out
of context... you can actually do whatever you like...grin... but you cannot
change the truth. And the truth is that if you can not tune without a machine...
then you can not tune period.

The ability to turn a wrench does not a tuner make..

I susceed the soap box to my esteemed colleague from Alabama..

LHSBAND440@AOL.COM wrote:

> If it by ear or by ETD it all comes down to the final result.  This is true
> for the customer as well as the tuner.  In the industry if you are a terrible
> tuner you will not retain you customers and your tunings will not hold.  I
> guess if I really wanted to stir up trouble I would suggest that the tuning
> exam be administered by the judges who did not know if the person was using
> and ETD or their ears or both and let the final result stand as a passing or
> failing tuning.
>
> Standing with fire hose in hand
>
> Leo Silverman

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no