thank you very much for your help. I will try your tuner orientation to find the good balance. For the rest of the keys, by ear was fine with all three drones, with almost no hearable oscillations, but just got the problem here. Thirds, fourths, fifths and octaves I can find by ear fine, seconds, sixths and sevenths are a bit more problematic. Will check anyway against your values to see how trustable are my ears :-)
Best regards,
Oscar.
2006/10/17, Graham Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Oscar,
If you do it by ear, you are likely to get it sounding good in G, bad in C
Why don't you do it accurately using your tuning meter
Its very quick and easy and works absolutely perfectly
You don't have to get it spot on
The theory and the data can be found in my paper "Tuning and Temperament"
You can find it at http://www.hurdygurdy.org/resources.html
The basic adjustments in cents relative to equal temperament for a G string
are
G 0
Ab +12
A +4
Bb +16
B -14
C -2
C# -10
D +2
Eb +14
E -16
F -4
F# -12
G 0
It works the same in D but use the keyboard note positions not the pitches
In other words the first top row key is Ab +12 whatever the tuning
Your HG will sound very sweet in common major and minor keys G, C, D etc
You get rich 3rds, clean 5ths and woundefully sad minor 3rds
Your drones will just melt into the tune
You will have temperament issues playing in more remote keys
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: Oscar Picazo Ruiz
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: [HG] B key tuning
Hello again,
I was adjusting tangents to get just intonation, you know using
drones/trompettes and thirds, fourths, fifths by ear.
For the G string, low B key and G or D drone the sound was good (I had to
turn the tangent a bit down), but when using the C drone, that B sounds
terrible!. With the high B the effect is almost not heard, but with the low
one is like having a drone out of tune, you can hear the oscillation a lot.
Any tricks? I will follow the tuner again to see if I find a balance...
Thanks a lot,
Oscar.
