Aside: Home Recording Website

This isn't strictly tuning-related, but relevant to most of us anyway.

I recently posed a home-recording question to rec.audio.pro, and got a
response from the author of a website on home recording. I've only looked
at it briefly, but it seems to be pretty cool from what I've seen of it so
far.

http://homerecording.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa092397.htm

> What kind of devices exist to measure the exact frequency of any particular
> sound. And more specifically are there any that are fairly inexpensive?

I designed some flutes back in high school using a frequency counter I
built from a kit. It was, however, designed to work with much radio
frequencies, so what they advertised as astounding resolution to plus or minus
1Hz, wasn't so impressive for audio frequencies. But I was able to get away
with by averaging several measurements.