The Final Result (more)

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Greetings, 
    A tuner that is trying to deny the same label to another that does the 
same work via a different way is simply an insecure reactionary.   A piano 
tuner is one that tunes.  There are good ones and bad ones, and a lot of 
persons in between. 
      A bigger question is "What does it mean to be "tuned".  A typical 
keyboard musician from 1750 would probably reject a 100% perfect ET that is 
the holy grail to so many of us today, so there is a bit of the subjective 
when we try to define a "tuner".  We may as well argue what is a tuning? (and 
I have had those sorts of "conversations".) 
       On the skeet range,  the guys shooting perfect scores with .410 
shotguns don't have to say anything to the ones that are using 12 gauge guns, 
it is obvious who possesses the finesse.  The tuner that shows up with a 
fork,   a hammer, and one mute doesn't have to say anything to the tuner that 
is using a machine, (unless they are sufficiently insecure). 
    To those that would label a colleague something less than a tuner because 
they use a SAT,  I can only say, let's hear your work.  Mine is out there, as 
exposed as I can make it, where is yours? 
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT (with pretty good scores, too!)