Yummy hat

Daniel, in case this wasn't clear before, you may not at any point in the
tuning exercise listen to anything less than the full chord; listening to
subsets would be cheating, as the issue here is the chord as a whole. Do
each test a couple of times so we know you didn't just get lucky.


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Wait a minute, Daniel, how can your average deviation be negative? I want to
know the average ABSOLUTE deviation, or the root mean square deviation if
you prefer. If you throw enough darts at a dartboard, the "average" position
is the bullseye, but that doesn't mean you ever came close to the bullseye.
If your average position with the red darts was closer to the bullseye than
with the blue darts, you could have still been much closer to the bullseye
on the average throw of a blue dart than on the average throw of a red dart.


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Paul:

You can take the figures I posted as absolute deviations as well. All of my
tuning errors were in the same direction relative to the target frequency
and the largest error was 5.52 cents for 17/20 and I hit the bullseye three
times for 6/7.

I have developed a pretty good technique with the oscillator. I imagine the
target pitch and it becomes a ceiling or floor for my tuning through which
I do not pass. (It is a bit like tending header on a wheat harvester for
any of you with agricultural experience).

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