My first tuning attempt

[BobDavis88 at aol.com]

Dave Stahl writes:
When I had my ETD take an unscheduled swim one afternoon, and was left with 
an ear and a tuning fork, I was relieved that I had reasonably good aural 
skills.  
Yeah, I closed my car console door on my PDA [Insert expensive crunch here]. 
There is at least one other good reason to emulate aural tuning patterns, at 
least on the fine tuning: 

I don't know if it's the microphone on my PDA or what, but sometimes my 
Pocket CyberTuner suggests a completely unusable tuning, often enough that I almost 
always tune A4-A3-A2 first, check octaves and double octaves aurally to make 
sure the spread is right, then contiguous thirds at least F3-A3-C#4-F4-A4. If 
everything is okay, then I fill in the rest of the temperament, and spread 
both ways from there. I also keep aural track as I go up and down. One could do 
that, at least above the temperament, on the A0-->C7 tuning, but you don't get 
a good check on the basics until way too far into the tuning.

Bob Davis
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