<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"> I aggree David. In fact I would think a testing procedure for tuning exams could be rather easily constructed along these lines. Such a test would be much much easier to administer. No master tuning would be necessary for one thing. That would mean you wouldnt really need more then one person to set up and administer the test. Aural verification could be included and part of CTE training and required qualifications could be an expanded demonstratable knowledge of such.... Just a thought.. "David M. Porritt" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  One additional method of evaluation might be to confirm what each tuner is attempting to do.  There is a wide range of acceptable and even great tunings.  Octave stretch has a wide latitude depending on a person's subjective preferences. Therefore, in addition to the traditional evaluations used in the past, each tuner should declare what his/her intentions were, and the tuning be measured as to how close they came to what they intended to do.  Lets say one tuner says he/she is going to tune 4:2 octaves from F3 to C8, and 6:3 octaves from E3 to A0.  When the job is done, each note can be measured to see if the intentions were carried out.  That way you'd not have a "it sounds pretty good" but a "the goals were or were not met."  That's a little more objective. dave <pre>_____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________</pre> </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A>   </body> </html>