The tuner controversy

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 12/15/00 8:15:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:

<< Again... this is not the issue here. No one is argueing that point.
 
 The arguement centers around the idea  that a good tuning implicitly means
 there was a knowledgeable, skilled technician preforming the work.
 
 It does not, simply because this result can be achieved by other means. Both
 the RCT and the SAT are capable in themselves of creating a very good tuning.
 The only human skill and knowledge needed to execute that tuning is that of
 setting the pins to the machines satisfaction.
 
 The argument then is about whether this lonely skill in itself qualifies the
 person as a piano tuner or not.
 
 Richard Brekne >>

If you found a piano in tune, and did not know who tuned it, or how it was 
tuned, would you pass judgement on that piano? If you found out who did the 
tuning, but did not know him/her, would you pass judgement him/her? If you 
found out that person tunes only with a machine, would you think different of 
him/her? 

Willem