Exercise 3

Approximately how many piano tuners are there in your country? (Find how many there are in your city, and try to make an estimate.)
Links

A thorough but technical discussion of scales is given at

http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/
music/DiatonicScale.html

and
http://www.ericweisstein.com/
encyclopedias/music/EqualTemperament.html


Oh, and to check up on the number of piano tuners in Australia:
    
contact http://www.aptta.org.au 


         

Exercise 4

Investigate how various stringed instruments are tuned.
Exercise 5

(For music students) Investigate the mathematics of the four tuning systems: Pythagorean, Ptolemaic, mean-tone temperament, equal temperament.