Aural vs. electronic again

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

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I'd love to have a long talk with you about aural tuning; it's my first=20
and greatest love in this craft.
I feel I've elevated my skills to a world-class level by using=20
dead-simple methods:  basically allowing all the fourths on the piano to =

beat (depending on the piano & its inharmonicities & scale design)
slowly, between .5 and 2.0 bps---the same across the entire scale,=20
listening to the whole tone.
The aim of my tuning is beauty----evenness and key color, a deep, deep=20
bass, and the same bloom in the struck note that I hear in the plucked=20
note.  My ideal is the great pianos I heard on record when I was a=20
child----all tuned by aural tuners using the "one mute, one fork, and =
one=20
tuning hammer" method.

David Andersen


    David, I must say, that since I read about your method of listening =
to fourths, I've listened to them more, and yes, you really can refine =
your tuning in the temperament area by paying attention to them. They =
become useless to me above about D5-G5, though.  I use the SAT, and =
after the first pass, I start out at A4 and tune down to A0, at E4 I =
start checking my fourths, and I can immediately tell how much stretch =
I'm getting by the speed of the fourths. Also, It tells me when =
something has slipped, or is not quite right in the upper temperament =
area. But then, I also listen to the faster beating intervals when I'm =
done with the temperament. How high can you hear the fourths while =
you're tuning?=20

    Kevin. 
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