[CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?

[Don]

Hi Susan,

So far as I am aware no one can discern 1/100 of a cent. But if someone
can--and has developed aural tests to help do so--please "larn me how" *grin*.

I meant I went ahead and learned to tune at 1/10 of a cent--because at that
time I was using a very lovely device called an etd :).

Was just saying 1/100 was possible to measure with what is by now some
pretty ancient technology! (modified Hale Sight - O - Tuner)

At 12:22 PM 3/17/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi, Don
>
>>It would appear that the best that can be done on a totally "Aural" basis
>>is 1/10 of a cent. No one told me that such small changes were hard to
>>make--so I simply bashed away until I could make that sort of resolution. I
>>guess this would be a case of an ETD driving a student to a higher level
>>than they might have achieved without one.
>
>And your reason for wanting 1/100th of a cent? Sort of a hobby, perhaps?
>"Because it was there ..." ? You surely don't think there's a human
>oscilloscope out there who could discern the difference unaided?
>(And would they mind if they could?)
>
>It's like the old philosophical question of whether a tree falling in a
forest
>where no one hears it makes a sound. If no one can tell, is it
>"higher" work? And if the time and effort spent on approaching some kind of
>scientific limit to accuracy takes your attention away from other
>aspects of the piano, which people can respond to?
>
>
>>Where our ears "shine" is in unisons. It is possible to duplicate a great
>>unison with an etd--just that it takes longer than doing it aurally.
>>Besides which the ear ought to be the final judge of what is desireable.
>
>I certainly second that notion.
>
>Susan
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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