My first tuning attempt

[Mark Purney]

I appreciate all the feedback. I'll eventually be taught how to tune 
without a Pocket PC, but I'm just getting started. Friday was my first 
lesson and the first time I ever operated a tuning lever. I can't wait 
to find out what I'll be learning this week. :)


BobDavis88 at aol.com wrote:
> 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