Do people who tune aurally actually count beat rates? I never did. Since the beat rate of, for example, the F3-A3 third will vary slightly from piano to piano, it is more important to be able to hear how rates compare to each other and to discern certain relationships like 4:5. Setting up a piano by a using a strict set of beat rates for a certain interval won't always work (at least in ET). Beat rate counters such as Sanders makes are nice as training tools and to get you in the ballpark, but it's the ability to hear the relationships that will ultimately get you where you're going. David Love > Actually it would seem to me that any RPT should be able to sit down with > any beat rate recipe for a temperament and execute a decent example of that > tuning.
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