"Kevin E. Ramsey RPT" wrote: > Richard,, The way the current test is set up here, is that you must be able > to tune, ( granted, it's only three octaves.) aurally the center section of > the piano. I think it's from B2 to C5. Then you're graded using fairly tight > standards as to A440, stability, etc. For all practical purposes, if you > aren't a pretty good aural tuner,,you aren't going to pass. Doesn't involve > using the machine at all. > ----- Original Message ----- I know.. I just took it this summer. Actually felt it could have been a good deal tougher, but at least it confirmed you had the basic idea of and skills needed to do an aural tuning. The present discussion is about a proposal to allow the use of the machine to do the whole test. This of course would reduce the value of the present test quite a bit. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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