Aural vs. electronic again, was "Re: Another newbie question"

[Farrell]

"The machine is only for the first-pass structuring of the tuning. There's a fit and finish to it which has to be aural (and  experienced), and not just in unisons work."

My hand is not up, as I do all my unison tuning aurally. But what do you mean by the above statement? The machine for a first pass, and then no machine is fit to calculate a good final tuning? Not on a well scaled piano? Not with a SAT III with a good DOB adjustment? Not with a Verituner? I'm not saying you can't do it some other way, but Shirley you are not saying that a good machine, properly used, can't calculate a good tuning?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Aural vs. electronic again, was "Re: Another newbie question"

> At 10:39 AM -0500 1/19/03, Charles Neuman wrote:
> >I guess the message I get is that the ETD is a useful tool, but ultimately
> >it's best to think of tuning as an aural activity.
> 
> Hands up, all  ETD tuners who do your final unison tuning with the 
> machine. The machine is only for the first-pass structuring of the 
> tuning. There's a fit and finish to it which has to be aural (and 
> experienced), and not just in unisons work.
>