Gee, I dunno Ron... but I am a stark advocate of aural tuning skills and have waned more then a few cautionary fingers in the air about misuse/abuse of ETD's in my time... and despite that perspectory standing point I found your post incindiary and clearly anti ETD right off. To be frank... I saw really no real good reason for you to include the ETD related statements in your post which primarilly dealt with problemetik surrounding hearing injuries. The very subject title seemed clearly to be mixing issues in a decidedly anti ETD manner. If you wished to convey some thoughts relative to hearing aids, injury to hearing, and the like.... why the need to include comments about ETD's at all ?? Thats a different subject matter entirely. Strikes me... an aural tuning advocate... that you were clearly taking potshots at ETD users in the course of your hearing aid post. Perhaps you intended no such conveyance, or perhaps you did. Thats your domain to figure out and deal with. But as for the perception of others .... well I for one certainly understand anyone taking affair here. Cheers RicB Ron May states: William, what in the world are you talking about. This is my first ever post on this subject and I most certainly didn't mean to be anything close to incendiary. As far as "auralier than thou" I guess that you and Alan could be said to be "ETDer than thou". Could it possible be that some of you haven't taken the time to learn how to tune auraly and just get jabbed at the mere mention of aural tuning. I have no problem with ETDs. I do get upset when some ding-bat goes out and buys one along with a tuning lever and the next day puts an add in the local paper claiming to be a "Master Tuner" when he wouldn't know what a piano was if it fell on him. Other than that, I have even thought of buying one but at my age and the amount of work I entend to do I see no need. As long as the professionals/concert artists I deal with are excited about my tuning, I feel no need to invest in an ETD. If I was younger and wanted to tune 5 pianos a day, I would probably invest in one.
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