Tuning a piano 'moulds the mind'

[Barrie Heaton]

I wonder if this applies to tuners who uses an ETD (Electronic Tuning Device)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19398413

Barrie

[Withindale]

... or, reading the article, to London cabbies using sat nav?

Ian

[Barrie Heaton]

... or, reading the article, to London cabbies using sat nav?

Ian

Don't they have to do the knowledge any more

Barrie

[Withindale]

... or, reading the article, to London cabbies using sat nav?

Ian

Don't they have to do the knowledge any more

Barrie

Yes they do.

All-London drivers' Knowledge is based on learning 320 routes (or runs). This will help them learn the 25,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks and places of interest in the six mile radius of Charing Cross.

It takes between two and four years to pass the All-London Knowledge. Once you are licensed you can work anywhere in the Greater London area.

How does that compare with learning to tune a piano bearing in mind all the notes and their partials and overtones?

[Gill the Piano]

Learning how all the streets relate to eachother (ie, creating a route) is a bit like learning how all the notes relate to eachother. And finding a false note and making it blend in might be like finding a roadblock and finding an alternative route, perhaps?

[vernon]

I've had a very busy week and my hippocampus is aching.
According to " Material World" on BBC 4 Friday(same subject) this bit of the brain does lots of other things too though they didn't mention what, save memory.
I suspect my hippocampus is so developed over years of trying to get false notes to comply with all tuning theories that other brain functions have been compromised.
OK memory is top tho' amber nectar could contribute; but is piano tuning responsible for the assorted deficencies that affect my otherwise fantastic corpus?

[Barrie Heaton]

How does that compare with learning to tune a piano bearing in mind all the notes and their partials and overtones?

give me learning to tune a piano any day.

Barrie