<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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.  </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">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: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Bob Davis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>