No, for heaven's sake, one shouldn't replace technicians...[...] The coins are a nice idea with which everyone can have fun at home without spending anything....[...] There is nothing wrong with knowing roughly what is wrong... it can be discussed....
I believe, however, that to become good technicians, being followed by great professionals is not enough; this is only a prerequisite. Instead, it is indispensable to have much talent, since it is a technical/artistic profession: the students of great technicians do not always reach their masters!
In the absence of talent, one can be sufficiently good... but there will always be something that "wobbles" after the tuning!
We have plenty of sufficient technicians; instead, we would like to find many good tuners, those who know how to make the instrument vibrate in the correct way!!
The instrument must vibrate!!!!!! The brilliance of the tuning must emerge from the overall sound of the instrument. It is no great harm if a few small things "dance." A string or two may move, but the tuning as a whole must make the instrument feel "grand." This accounts for inharmonicity, which differs from instrument to instrument and within each instrument from one area of the keyboard to another. There is something that puts us in communication with the piano and/or any other musical instrument, something I don't really know how to explain. It is not a matter of professionalism or expertise; it is a matter of "communication." A communication that one must always seek through the vibrations of things in the World around us. There is a moment when that note, that passage, that musical phrase, that tuning are right. There is no science or device that can validate the result. It confronts "The Human" and our demanding sensitivity. Hard-won goals sought through time, falls, errors, attempts, alongside, naturally, a thick fabric of basic knowledge.
