--- On Thu, 7/8/10, dhbailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
John's statement about inexperience players surprised me, because using a tuner for all strings would never have occurred to me. I played violin in high school, and we were taught from the beginning to listen to the A, tune that one string, and then tune all the others relative to it. If there was an oboe in the group, we all listened to that. If not, one of the violinists listened to a note (tuner, keyboard, or tuning fork) and then gave the A to everyone else. Sometimes the band students used our room, and one time they left the tuner set to Bb. Some of the string players came in next, and we didn't know that the tuner could actually change notes, because we had only ever used it to listen to the A - I turned it on, we all tuned our instruments a semitone sharp, and started practicing. It didn't bother any of us, but the teacher had perfect pitch and freaked out when she came into the room and heard us. After that, I bought my own tuning fork. -- Io la Musica son, ch'ai dolci accenti So far tranquillo ogni turbato core, Et or di nobil ira et or d'amore Poss'infiammar le più gelate menti. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
