Originally Posted by
79pmooney
The tuner could work well, But keep it simple! Start your tour with good wheels in good shape. Before you start, take the tuner and find what your spokes are now. Again, keep it simple. Just find the frequency that best describes what you've got; for the front wheel, NDS and DS, Write down the notes or frequencies.
Now you can use the tuner out on the road to assist with truing or for target tensions should you need to rebuild a wheel (assuming the same or similar gauge spokes). It will also tell you if a spoke is way off but you can probably hear that just tapping the spoke and its neighbors. (Hearing is one of those gifts most of us simply take for granted but not all have it or can hear but not distinguish pitches.)
Tell me!
I'm not sure if it's my Asperger's or an attention disorder, but I just can't do it.
When plucking spokes, I can tell they sound different, but I can't remember which is higher, assuming they are somewhat close. I can filter out the "thuds & thunks", but if they "twang", I'm screwed. The harmonics of crossing spokes really throw me off too.
Getting somebody to believe me? I don't expect them to because it doesn't even make sense to me.