I appreciate all the feedback. I'll eventually be taught how to tune without a Pocket PC, but I'm just getting started. Friday was my first lesson and the first time I ever operated a tuning lever. I can't wait to find out what I'll be learning this week. :) BobDavis88 at aol.com wrote: > 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
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