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Dear David and the List David wrote 15.10.: > My on-stage-while-the-orchestra-is-playing-tuner is the Korg AW-1. > It's the size of a clip and can stay clipped on the lute, or out of > sight on the music stand if you prefer to look 'authentic'. No risk of > fly fishing scenes like with the clip-on mics with line to tuner. Cool > machine: piezo as well as built-in mic. 410 to 480Hz. Only ET (it > looks like ET), but it has a mark where the pure major third is. Very good idea! Thanks David! I bought the gadget yesterday, 55 euros. Seems to be a well thought machine! And actually I am not so interested of the _numbers_ of Herzes or cents; what I am interested is how the pitch is when compared to the equal temperament. And AW-1's marks for pure major and minor thirds (giving about +-14 cent deviations from ET) are good enough reference points. I can easily set the needle (and so the pitch) "slightly under or over ET", "a little higher than major pure third", etc. etc. Somehow the using the "needle", not numbers, reminds me of analog and digital watches: when you look the arms (is that the word?) of an analogue watch, you just _know_ the time, and if somebody asks the time when he saw you taking a look to your watch, you have to look once again and transform the time from analogue knowledge to numbers. I think the gadget is useful to you, only if you already know a little, how you want to tune. For example I could use it like this: Let's talk about a lute in ren. g tuning. If someone tunes a theorbo in a, just transpose a major second up... ;-) If you wish to have g in the ET(a'=440Hz), tune the 1st and 6th strings to ET g. Then tune the 2nd string d to a little a little low, it is enough to have the "middle needle with the next needle" or "one step" to the "low" direction". Do the same with 5th string c but to the "high" direction". Tune 4th string f still a little "higher". And finally tune 3rd a to a couple or three "needles" higher than pure major 3rd. Because your f was a little higher than ET, your third f-a should be quite pure... Of course the deviations, "positions of the needles", is a little obscure, but at least I seem to get the right (analogue) feeling quite easily. And finally, I could no resist buying AW-1 because it has my initials... ;-) All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
