I agree completely Simon IMHO you should use the tuner to set only ONE open chanter All the other open strings at the same pitch should be set by ear This is much quicker and more accurate
You should NOT set other pitches like D trompette on a G h-g with the tuner This will give a slightly wrong pitch The D needs to be a pure interval against the G The tuner will give you a tempered D Again just do it by ear I use a programmable tuner on my PC and laptop You can have thousands of temperaments from file Or you can set your own in a text file either as cents or frequency ratios The tuner makes tangent setting very quick and easy I use Just Temperament by frequency ratio on all my h-gs That looks like ! Hurdy-Gurdy JUST.scl ! Just Temperament for Hurdy Gurdy 12 ! 16/15 9/8 6/5 5/4 4/3 45/32 3/2 8/5 5/3 16/9 15/8 2/1 Graham -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Wascher Sent: 10 December 2007 10:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Building Questions: onboard tuners Hello, Am 05.12.2007 um 23:18 schrieb John Tappan: > Three, a number of instruments are being built with onboard > electronic tuners. It works nicely on my guitar, I’d think that > with some 46 or so tangents, it could be a big help in getting set up. there are two purposes for the onboard tuner. First is to find and control the pich of the open string, really helpful. Second is to tune the tangents. To tune the the tangent pitches well you will need a tuner that is capable of at least one or the other non equally tempered scales, like Kirnberger II, Valotti, ... or one that allows to reprogram its scale to the needed. Most small tuners that you might find nice to build in support modern standard equal temperament pitches only. If you find a small reprogamable one, please let me know... Simon --- have a look at: http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com --- my site: http://simonwascher.info
