Probably not for me Paul. I remember one evening I solo-sailed from Port Huron, Michigan for an over-night crossing of Lake Huron aiming at Grand Bend, Ontario, with no instruments other than a compass and seat-of-the-pants dead-reckoning. Ended up the next morning in Bayfield - well, I did hit Ontario at least! 'Course, sleeping in the cockpit with sheets and tiller tied down for most of the crossing didn't help much. I suppose an aural piano tuner shouldn't sleep while tuning. Have you ever suddenly awakened from a dream - most often about half- way through the treble on a crummy spinet - right after lunch........? Terry Farrell On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:04 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > The best technological failure analogy I can come up with is as a > sailor. If I'm in the middle of Lake Michigan reading my GPS, my > Loran (yes, I'm that old), my wind speed indicator, my wind > direction indicator, and my boat speedometer, calculating where I am > and where I'm going, and when I'm going to get there is relatively > easy. But, and this has happened, if my batteries die, then I had > better know how to do one thing: sail. Dead reckoning (from deduced) > is akin to aural tuning perhaps? > > Paul > > In a message dated 1/31/2011 7:40:48 P.M. Central Standard Time, pianofritz50 at aol.com > writes: > John, so why your "continual use of a calculator"? Perhaps because > it's more accurate... all the time?? > > I guess I should refrain from asking you what you do when your > calculator's batteries die... me, I either install new ones or > grab the back-up unit and keep on calculating... BFritz > From: John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] ETD dust storm > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:48:06 -0600 > > <SNIP> > Same with adding and subtracting. When I was in school, I could add > and subtract a lot better on paper (and in my head) than I can now. > Years of continual use of a calculator eroded that ability. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110201/fb3deae0/attachment.htm>
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