> > Hope you're not thinking of fobbing your boy off with
> > 2nd best ?
>
> No, not at all.

Just joshing - I know you'd do everything you could

> I  just don't know whether the tuning indicator should
> call it good at the base frequency plus or minus nothing,
> 1Hz, 5% or what. Just need to figure that out.  I can make
> it as picky as needed, but don't want it uselessly picky

Haha, that's very good - "uselessly picky" - just how I was
when I started

If he's playing with himself (oooer) then it doesn't matter
how spot on the tuning is. I expect he'll go through usual
stages of playing along with CDs, then a couple of mates,
and then perhaps a band. Even those bald tattooed scary
people who make CDs for young uns have their instruments
in tune (no, really !!) and he can adjust the bass' tuning maybe
just a little to play along. Whether he's on the same frets as
them, who knows, as there are plenty of alternatives to EADG
(Hendrix tiuned his bass to all flats for example, which some
nasty people might say explains a lot)

A "lady" I once knew back in the punk days played for a band
called the Scavengers (hmmm, cute). Her rhythm guitar was
tuned for her to an open-string  Gmaj chord by the lead
guitarist. All she had to do was make a straight barre across
the strings to change chords. None of that messy which-
finger-goes-where-for-Eminor nonsense. Please make him
get further than that

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