Dave Stahl writes: When I had my ETD take an unscheduled swim one afternoon, and was left with an ear and a tuning fork, I was relieved that I had reasonably good aural skills. Yeah, I closed my car console door on my PDA [Insert expensive crunch here]. There is at least one other good reason to emulate aural tuning patterns, at least on the fine tuning: I don't know if it's the microphone on my PDA or what, but sometimes my Pocket CyberTuner suggests a completely unusable tuning, often enough that I almost always tune A4-A3-A2 first, check octaves and double octaves aurally to make sure the spread is right, then contiguous thirds at least F3-A3-C#4-F4-A4. If everything is okay, then I fill in the rest of the temperament, and spread both ways from there. I also keep aural track as I go up and down. One could do that, at least above the temperament, on the A0-->C7 tuning, but you don't get a good check on the basics until way too far into the tuning. Bob Davis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070121/74e68671/attachment.html
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