[pianotech] Aural Tuning Training Software

[Floyd Gadd]

This is probably a hare-brained idea, but I'm curious.

Are any of you aware of anyone who has developed computer software to visual
the beating of coincident partials in real time?  For instance, the user
might enter the names of two pitches, play the notes on a piano, and see the
beats he is hearing displayed as visual pulses on the screen, maybe even
with the beat speed of each set of coincident partials displayed.  The
objective the program would be to speed the training of the ears/aural
awareness through visual reinforcement.

With all the software development happening "out there", I can't imagine
that I would be the first to come up with the idea.  Maybe someone has
explored it and found it doesn't actually help anyone, but I'm still
curious.

Floyd Gadd
Manitoba Chapter