[pianotech] Aural Tuning Training Software

[CHARLES BECKER]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Floyd Gadd" <fg at floydgadd.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:45 PM
Subject: [pianotech] Aural Tuning Training Software


> 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
>
>