Hi listers! I have learned to do a good job in the highest octaves now, after several hundred tunings this year; I'm a new part-time tuner as of December '02 and have been a full-time band & orchestra director for 24 years. I just can't distinguish the fundamental pitch on the 3 or 4 highest pitches, but (I think) I'm hearing the sum and/or difference tones and am getting pretty good unisons, especially on the better pianos I tune. All those years of rock 'n roll when I didn't know any better and didn't use hearing protection... <sad grin> I use protection now, when I tune and when I direct my high school band and marching band. Does anyone else have this problem and do you use the same solution? I tune aurally and don't want to HAVE to get an ETD...yet... <grin> Thanks! Steve Borgstrom Brooklyn Park, MN
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