John Howell wrote:
At 4:19 PM -0400 7/7/10, dhbailey wrote:
And that also assumes that the string player wouldn't use an
electronic tuner to get the A and then tune by ear from there. I
never suggested that they use the tuner for all their strings, just
that if everybody were using an electronic tuner to get their standard
pitch from, tuning would be even quicker in the ensemble.
All quite true. But most inexperienced players use it for all 4 strings.
John
But if we're talking about inexperienced players, they're
not going to be tuning perfect 5ths anyway, and most likely
won't be playing in tune much of the time, so it's a moot
point with them. Even tuning to a tuning fork or an oboe or
clarinet won't help inexperienced players.
It is to be hoped that inexperienced players are working
with teachers who are teaching them how to tune properly and
how to make the best use of any tuning device, which would
include electronic tuners, and, again one would hope, would
teach those inexperienced string players to use the tuning
device to get one string in tune and then tune the other
strings from that original string.
--
David H. Bailey
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