sammûan ancient tuning workshop

Listening practice · a modern numerical realization

Find the alignment
by ear.

Keep the pair sounding as you turn one string. Hear its beats change, then reveal the measurements to connect what you hear with the model’s answer.

The current diagnostic pair

qablītum · 5 + 2

What to listen to

Live sound is sustained. Isolated mode keeps just one partial from each string. Their slightly unequal levels prevent complete cancellation when they match.

Drag to explore. Arrow keys adjust 0.1 cent; Shift + arrow adjusts 1; Page Up/Down adjusts 10. The sound follows your adjustment without restarting.

Start at a comfortable volume. Live sound ends after one minute; Stop ends it sooner.

Change the retuning direction

This is an exploration, with no hearing score. 100 cents is one modern equal-tempered semitone.

Keep the adjustment,
and its explanation.

The worksheet records your tentative setting separately from the underlying exact tuning. It includes the comparison audio, measurements, source notes and complete move history.

Saved worksheets include the measurements even while they are hidden here. The WAV keeps two fixed settings, with a short silence between them; it does not record your live movement. Its full pair decays; its isolated tones have equal levels.

Checking offline availability…

Return to the exact tuning without applying the preview →