I have been using a very nifty computer program called Tune!It. Go to http://www.zeta.org.au/~dvolkmer/tuneit.html to learn about the program. I also keep it on my small laptop which I carry when travelling. Alas, it is not really a stand-alone box but it has every imaginable tuning. I've tried to encourage the builder of this program to make some version for a Palm-OS PDA. There are some VERY expensive tuning programs which use a Pocket-PC OS, they are used by piano tuners and are very powerful. Web sites are <www.tunelab-world.com> $320 and <www.reyburn.com> $795.
The tuning I can get 'watching the needle' with the Tune!It program is FAR superior to what I can do by ear....I am much too accustomed to hearing piano equal temperment. BTW, I keep my baroque guitar tuned in 1/6 comma meantone and find that in all the 'usual' keys it sounds best this way. Perhaps this is blasphemy, but even when I have played continuo with harpsichords tuned to something else, with the guitar in 1/6 comma it sounds tuned up. best, Candace Dr. Candace A. Magner [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage http://clik.to/candace ----- Original Message ----- From: "STEPHEN ARNDT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: Sixth Comma Meantone > Thank you, Stewart, for the fascinating explanation! > > Does anyone know whether there is an electronic tuner that can be set = > for the various meantone tunings, or at least one that will show exactly = > at how many vibrations per second a given string is resonating? > > I have been tuning my 10-course Renaissance lute at A =3D 415, using the = > Korg Chromatic Tuner CA-30, and am wondering whether there is a way to = > get a meantone tuning by varying the pitch of A a digit or two up or = > down on the tuner as I tune the successive strings. If so, is anyone = > mathematician enough to tell me by how much to vary the pitch of A on = > the tuner for each string? > > I'm not sure whether my question is clear, so let me try to illustrate = > by an example. Let's say that if I set the tuner to A =3D 415, the C = > string vibrates at 107 and that I want it to vibrate at 108. Could I = > tune it to that pitch by resetting the tuner to A =3D 416, for example? > > After all these questions, it probably would have been easier just to = > ask Stewart how he goes about tuning the strings to a precise number of = > vibrations per second. I am very interested in trying it, but don't know = > how to do it. So, I would appreciate any help anyone could give me. > > Thank you. > > Stephen Arndt > > > --
