The tuner controversy

[Richard Brekne]

Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:

> 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

You are on the same line as Keith, and apparently Ron N. You turn the problem
situation upside down. This is not about whether one can tune with an ETD or
not... its about whether they can tune period. If you can not tune without the
ETD.. you aint a tuner. You are at best the extension of a machine.  Further  just
because a person does use an ETD says nothing in itself about whether they cant
tune without it. You dont know until you test them.

Listen Wim, and you others who insist on following this direction...

I sat in on a ETD tuning exam this summer in Arlington. The person got marks in
the 30's and 40's for the Aural section... didnt have a clue. In the ETD part the
person passed... varying marks from a low 80 to one 98.  You want to certify this
person... go for it. Because thats the kind of thing that will happen if you
follow this road to its logical conclusion.

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