Duaine, One of my clients tried to hear the beats of different intervals when I was tuning and no matter what intervals I played (some of them beat more loudly than others) he could not hear any beating of partials. So I can understand what you're saying. I thought it might be that you don't know "where" to listen for the beats to occur. Have you tried ghosting? This is a technique where you open a couple of dampers, e.g. F3 - A3, and give a staccato blow to A5. If you listen for what happens after A5 has stopped sounding, you should hear a beat (approx. 7 beats per second in this case) at that A5 level. Try it with different intervals and ghost at the first coincident partial of each interval. See if you don't hear a pulsation. The trick is to listen at the coincident partial level, not at the fundamental levels. Let me know if you hear anything. Tom Cole Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote: > Just to clarify, Part 1 is getting "A4" and setting the temperament. > > Isn't setting the temperament, using all the "note checks" ? > > If that's the case, then that's the part that I have trouble hearing. > (I even attended an aural tuning class at a convention with Jim > Coleman - and - just could not hear half of what he was trying to show me) > > With that said, then I'll never be able to pass the test - even - with > the aid of the ETD.
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