<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 20, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Ric Brekne wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Last time I checked mine they tested to 8000 hz.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Piano work doesnt require anything near that much unless you into trying to directly tune a 4:2 octave at C7-C8 :)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Now we're getting to the nuts and bolts of what a hearing aid can offer to an aural tuner.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>While we're at it, can someone with an RCT or TuneLab read some relative signal strengths on the 2d partial of G6 and the 1st of G7. Then does anybody know the point at which a series of pulses turns into a tone? 10 Hz, 15Hz? Is the point which beat rate is too fast to be unusable for us aural tuners any higher than 12 bps? Maybe that's another measurement for an ETD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As pointed out earlier, aural tuning may be the least of the areas of our work affected by hearing loss, and possibly the last to be hit. This thread has barely scratched the surface. At least with water, you DO miss it when the well runs dry.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bill Ballard RPT</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NH Chapter, P.T.G.</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:wbps@vermontel.net">wbps@vermontel.net</A></DIV></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Yeah!, let's do it. I'm pumped! Let the healing begin."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> ...........Matt Damon in the psychiatrist's office, in "Good Will Hunting"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">+++++++++++++++++++++</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>