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Hi Barbara, I had this same question. I kinda still do…? The solution I came up with: I listen carefully and knowledgably. I had to learn to listen to the vibrational waves as they align or seperate. When I tune a string using another string as the gauge for pitch when the tones start to get close there is a harmonic vibration that starts. It is a fast wah wah sound in the harmonic the two strings make. It is not the intitial sound the string makes when plucked but rather it is the sound of the wood of the guitar vibrating. As the two strings get close to aligned pitch the Wah Wah gets slower and slower until it just turns into Wahhhhhhh. The second pulse is lost when to two tones align. Here is when it gets fun….using the tuner and tuning two strings at the same time using the tuner as the guage. This is where I can mess around with the vibrational alignment and really hear the oscillations go from Wah wah wah wah to Wahhhhh wahhhhh wahhhhh, to Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I love playing with this stuff and I think it is because it elluded my sensory comprehension for so long. I can tune for 15 minutes messing around with different sets of strings and I don’t even realize the 15minutes has passed. I may be in the rabbit hole too deep. Good thing I have a flash light : )