On 02/02/2011 12:20 AM, Susan Kline wrote: > Duaine, your ears seem awfully easily taxed. What particular damage > does listening to a couple of perfect fourths do to them? If you can't > stand to listen to musical intervals, why are you tuning pianos? I'm a barbershop singer so I can stand to listen for "voice" chords. But to sit there on a piano and "find" the notes by subjecting myself to listening for - beats - which is damn near impossible on a lot of pianos I deal with - is taxing on the ear. Which, BTW, is probably why, I know a few techs that - r e f u s e - to tune anything other than grands. > > With due regard for your mother's opinion, stubbornness without logic > to back it up does not win debates. What logic are you referring to ? > > As you perfectly well know, I made a numbered list of the places ETDs > can fill, some of which ONLY they can fill, and expressed considerable > respect for a number of people using them -- just not the ones who > refuse to learn basic aural skills beforehand, or even afterward. > (That is, respect must be earned.) I'm talking about the kind of respect - that says - I have the right to use and tune with ETD's - without - knowing the full mishmash of aural tuning. And I have stated before, after every tuning I do some necessary checks - octaves - final check of unisons, etc. And play a little something that I can remember from 40 years ago. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler at att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 11 years
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