HI, I have a trainee that learned aurally and is almost just out of school. She started aurally, but with the pianos we are dealing with, the biggest problem is setting the pins. They are sure hard to turn. At the beginning, she didn't want to use the ETD I offered. But after a week of frustration (mostly from my part cause she was taking way too much time to listen), I forced the ETD on her telling her she would get much more experience setting pins accurately (you can see it drifting if not set). Also, the most important interval in piano tuning is still and always will be unisons. These are still done by ear. For a beginner, the use of an ETD will lessen the time to set temperament, give the person the chance to turn more tuning pins per day (concentrating on unisons) and make the employer (me) happier because I know what the tunings will get done. I still tune aurally some days and some pianos. It makes me feel good. But some days, I'm glad I have it. Sometimes I will cheat on the machine if I don't agree, but like some others said: It's a tool, and a darn good one at that. Marcel Carey, RPT Sherbrooke, QC _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Lawson Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:40 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Tuning G'day to you all. As an oldie, and an aural tuner, and knowing very little about electronic tuning devices, I am amazed at the amount of reference there is to the later. Are there still people being taught aural tuning, or have those days gone? I find the ear to be the best way to judge what is required from a tuning of a particular piano. I may be wrong, however using an ETD seems to me to be similar to playing a digital keyboard, you get what they give you. Am I way off the beam, or just a little too old to judge? Love the banter. David Lawson Wangaratta Australia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060709/8146f0a6/attachment.html
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