New Octave Survey

Please click the link below and take my NEW octave quiz. You will hear actual piano notes and be asked to tune three different A3A4 octaves. A3A4 is the first octave tuned in many octave sequences and therefore must be tuned to sound good with itself, with no other intervals to compare. Each A3 can be tuned within 0.5 cents and allows for a much more sophisticated test than the previous octave test I published. Once again, your answers will greatly help me to define a more systematic procedure for aural tuning, one that will help beginners and professionals tune more accurately from the beginning, and for that I thank you very much. Mark Here is the link to the new octave test: New Three Octaves Survey

About the author 

Mark Cerisano, RPT, B.Sc.(Mech.Eng.)

Instructor and Founder, howtotunepianos.com

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