ETD's accurate?

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:10:07 +0200


Ron Koval wrote:

> <snip>
> >.  While you are laboring over that last .01 cent and becoming
> >intoxicated by the nectar of creative tuning, I'm lubricating the action
> >and touching up the voicing.  Time, and money, better spent.
> >
> >David Love
> <snip>

I always love this particular argument as it so clumsily shoots itself in its
own foot. If you are not concerned with such accuracy, then you certainly have
no use for a machine. You can slop in a tuning with 1 cent tolerences (from Ed's
post along similar lines)  in 20 minutes or so. Secondly it makes all kinds of
false assumptions about the time it takes to do a good "creative" aural tuning.
Thirdly it completely dodges the point its trying to counter, namely that being
able to insure a good tuning requires a trained ear and mind that knows what to
do with what its hearing. If you can do that, then you can also use an ETD to
develope even better skills. But if you dont bother with the ears in the first
place, never bother to learn what tuning is all about, simply make whatever dial
you are looking at stop, then you might as well just turn on a Casio.



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Richard Brekne
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