ETD's accurate/Antares

[David Andersen]

>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.
>
What a fantastic story.  I honor your eloquence and honesty.  All roads 
lead to Rome when trod by good people trying to do their best.

Thanks very much; hope we meet sometime.....David Andersen




>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"