ETD's accurate?

[David Ilvedson]

Well put Antares...that is where my head is at.

David I.



     ----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
     From: antares <antares@euronet.nl>
     To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
     Received: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:17:09 +0200
     Subject: Re: ETD's accurate?

     >OK...And....then I was going to say ....(but then I had to run off to work)
     >that, indeed, an ETD is a power tool.
     >I often compare my Verituner (to interested customers and colleagues) with
     >an atomic vacuum cleaner, which I have mentioned here before.
     >I remember staying in a hotel room in a huge hotel in New Delhi and hearing
     >this weird brushing sound outside the door of my room.
     >I finally got up, opened the door and saw this Indian sweeper/cleaner on his
     >knees, brushing the miles long hallway carpet with a hand brush.
     >This was India, and I understood that giving that person a vacuum cleaner
     >would be murder to a million other Indian cleaner/sweepers.

     >I however do not live in India, so after having tuned more than 40 000
     >pianos I decided that in one life that was enough.
     >So I bought a Verituner and it changed my professional life completely.
     >>From earlier stories I wrote on this list you know that I underwent
     >horrifying tuning tests at Yamaha, day after day and course after course.
     >So, aside from those 40 000 plus pianos, I know what tuning by ear means and
     >I know what a perfect tuning means.
     >So I recognized the miracle of tuning with this miraculous 'atomic vacuum
     >cleaner', because it gave me instantly the most harmonious, the most
     >beautiful and the most balanced tunings, that I had fought for all those
     >years, within 45 minutes!!

     >Maybe someone out there can now understand why I don't bother anymore about
     >the creative process of making a perfect temperament?
     >Man...I have made that jig saw puzzle over and over for half of my life!
     >Give me break! (no, give me a VT)

     >Now....
     >about that creative process :
     >I have learned from my Japanese instructors to make a 'tone' by tuning
     >unisons. One of my instructors took me to various rooms of other piano
     >students and let me hear the differences between their 'tones'.
     >At the time I was not aware of 'a tone', let alone 'my tone'.
     >So as I began to learn about making tone by tuning I got hot and found an
     >immense inspiration again by digging further into this 'tone matter'.

     >Again my VT helps me tremendously by aiding me in making the most - perfect
     >- tuning on any instrument. However, my VT can not make a 'tone', and here
     >comes the creativity while tuning : I tune just all the middle strings of
     >the unisons (except for the bass section which I tune totally right away),
     >then shut down my 'magic box' and have a wonderful and relaxed time
     >concentrating on the process of 'making tone', just by upgrading the unisons
     >to the MAX.

     >Piano tuning has become fun again and has inspired me enormously.
     >It has also given me the possibility to concentrate, and spend more time, on
     >regulation and voicing during the same session because making the tuning did
     >not make me tired.

     >Don't forget that I too have done my share as a piano tuner. I speak from an
     >immense and hard fought experience during 30 years during which I wrecked my
     >hands, my arms, my back and luckily not yet my ears.

     >Using my ETD during the last 1.5 year has also given me a deep trust in the
     >capabilities of the machine so...yes! it is extremely accurate and...it
     >renewed my inspiration and initiated my second professional wind.

     >friendly greetings
     >from

     >Antares,

     >Amsterdam, Holland

     >"where music is, no harm can be"

     >visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


     >> From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
     >> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
     >> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:21:23 +0200
     >> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
     >> Subject: Re: ETD's accurate?
     >>
     >> Newton Hunt wrote:
     >>
     >>> An ETD is a power tool, and like any other tool, if it is used as a
     >>> substitute for skill then everyone suffers.
     >>>
     >>> Knowing how to find the flaws in any tool or process is finding a means
     >>> to compensate for it's deficiencies.
     >>>
     >>> Being creative is a means of taking something further than it had been
     >>> taken before, always reaching for that next knowing to acquire is what
     >>> life is about and bringing it to our work is enhancing our life and the
     >>> lives of the others effected.
     >>
     >> You see... we aggree after all !! :)
     >>
     >>>>> At what point does accuracy become playing with yourself?
     >>>>
     >>>> I'll thank you not to get gross on me here Newton... hehe.
     >>>
     >>> Now Richard, play is supposed to be fun, not gross.
     >>
     >> You have a point... or two I suppose I should say. And you are correct both
     >> ways.
     >>
     >>> Newton (going away now)
     >>>
     >>
     >> Have a good weekend my friend.
     >>
     >> Cheers!
     >>
     >> --
     >> Richard Brekne
     >> RPT, N.P.T.F.
     >> UiB, Bergen, Norway
     >> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
     >> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
     >>
     >>
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