On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:22:13 -0400, Garry Warber wrote > Thank you all... I only discovered electronic-tuner handiness > from my grandson when he used his app on his I-phone last month. > I personally do not have a cell phone, by choice.
But you can use the 'cell phone' just as an excellent digital tuner. And with Android systems in the range of 90$ plus 4$ for ClearTune you're still at appr. half the price of a Violab tuner. > So, if I'm getting this, any 440 tuner would work by tuning every > course a full step "low", then do a mind trick of telling > yourself it's regular lute tuning? For example my lute would > become, low to high, C, E-flat, F,B-flat, E-flat, G, C, F, which I > would then convince myself it's still D, F, G, C, F, A, D, G in > a=392? Wow... Perhaps just staying at a=415 is just fine... Kind of: 392 (well, 391.9...) is one tempered whole step below 440. But I find it anoying to transpose while tuning. And that -only_ works for equal temprament. In pythagorean the whole step below 440 is at 384 etc. HTH Ralf Mattes > Garry > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg [email protected]
