The Wristwatch: An ETD?

[RicB]

The idea is to demonstrate you can tune aurally.  The thinking goes that 
if you can do a temperament with your ear, then you probably can do the 
rest of the piano well enough for the tests purposes.  As far as using a 
watch to help set your beat speeds,  really the point is that if you 
cant set an aural temperament well enough to satisfy the test then no 
amount of metronoms, watches second hands, or what have you will do you 
any good.  The test is a good assessment of basic tuning abilities... 
with the word basic underlined. Anyone failing the exam should 
understand that they need to work on their aural skills no doubt about 
it.  Anyone passing should not think tooooo awfully well of 
themselves... unless you get close to like 98 scores all around... and 
even then one should keep a rather large wad of humility in ones back 
left pocket.

Cheers
RicB


     >From: "kurt baxter"
     >
     >My understanding is that no ETDs are allowed during the temperament
     >section of the RPT tuning exam...
     >


    Are ETD´s allowed outside of the temperament section? Does this make
    sense?
    When you tune the temperament aurally, how can you use an ETD for
    the rest?
    The result might be awfull intervalls.

    Gregor