Kent Swafford/....ETD generated tuning and refines it."

[Leslie W Bartlett]

That's a significant issue, though. If I chose to take my exam with a
machine, then  an aurally tuned piano would not completely agree with my
machine, even if I stopped lights completely.   There is a discrepancy
which I first noticed when I participated in giving an exam.  It seems
unfair to tune a piano aurally and then grade off if a person's ETD gives
different readings.  I cannot imagine an ETD giving exactly the same
tuning as an aural one. I would even suspect there will grow up a whole
electronic tuning vocabulary as more and more people turn to them.  It's
possible that twenty years from now, electronics will become standard 
and thus alter perceptions of what a "good tuning" is.
JMO
les bartlett

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:37:28 -0700 "Joseph Garrett"
<joegarrett@earthlink.net> writes:
> Kent,
> Of course you are correct. Misstep on my part. ETDs are allowed. 
> Bremmers
> comment, if you read it carefully, was that the piano is TUNED with 
> an ETD
> and then master tuned, aurally.
> I personally suggested that be done, a few years ago and was told 
> absolutely
> not! Hmm? There definately seems to be some differences of opinion 
> in the
> use of an ETD in Master Tuning. To me, this just adds more fuel to 
> the
> argument of those who choose NOT to become RPTs or to even join. 
> I've been
> hearing that lame argument for years, from the non-PTG crowd, that 
> they
> refuse to be pitted against a "Machine".
> Perhaps someone from the Tuning Test Committee could clarify this, 
> as I do
> not have a manual at the ready.
> Best Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> 
> Been There, Didn't Like It, So I'm Here To Stay! [G}
> 
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