Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:37:48 -0500 "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> wrote: > Israel: > > If Dr. Sanderson considered the Accutuner as an Electronic Tuning Aid I'm curious as to why he promoted the idea of starting at A0 and working up. Clearly there's no way to do any interval checks in the bass this way as there are no "tuned" notes above them to use as checks. > I don't remember precisely - it has been many years since I have been at one of his demonstrations, and I do not wish to be in the position of being able to ask him any time soon. ;-) But I believe that he recommended tuning from A0 up on the first pass. After that he refined aurally, in whatever order/sequence made sense. Maybe someone who remembers a demonstration of his could enlighten us. I did spend many hours during my years in Boston at his shop in Lowell and then later in Chelmsford, since my first Accutuner (#574) was a lemon - and I was always running to his place to get it debugged. After 3 years of this they finally found the bad relay or transistor or thingamabob... Al felt bad about it, and found it necessary to entertain me with conversation while Paul worked on the box. So I got an earful about how he felt about things...Including how important aural tuning is, and how great an aid the box is to aural tuning. He was even talking about toughening the aural requirements on the RPT exam, once significantly more than 50% of examinees start passing it... Israel Stein > When I got my first ETD I did this for a very short time before I realized that limitation. Now I tune in a pattern resembling aural tuning so I can make those checks. The idea of A0 & up has always mystified me (well, except for a pitch raise where you don't need checks). > dp > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu >
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