Tuning Source Book/Test: hints #2 & #18

[KeyKat88 at aol.com]

Greetings,
 
 
        In hint #2 it claims that you  dont want to tune a piano with it 
muted to single string for the first time  in an exam room. What is so 
unnerving/bad about that, aside from just not  being used to it? 
 
        In hint #18 it says that you  should learn to hear 4:5 ratios on 
contiguous M3's by counting 1 2 3 4 and  compare to 1 2 3 4 5.  How does one go 
about hearing beat rates while  doing/counting this? Is the Source Book implying 
that the contiguous M3  from A2 to C#3 is 4BPS and the next M3 from C#3 to F3 
is 5BPS?  If the  beat rate in higher pairs of M3's are more than 4 or 5 BPS, 
say 6 or  more than do you have to do the math to arrive what the contiguous 
M3 above it  should beat like?
 
  Also, has a tuner ever passed this exam without the skill  of knowing how 
to handle/count the 4:5 ratio? Not that I am not willing to learn  it but, that 
will take time and I have concentrated since inception  of tuning on 5ths, 
4ths, 3rds, 6ths, octaves and other tests.
 
thanks in advance,
Julia
Reading, PA







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