Re: [scots-l] Tuning and Electronic Tuners

[Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg]

>An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
>what your ear is "measuring", hearing,  on a "note" on an acoustic
>instrument is much more.

I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!).  Does the
ringing of the fork include the other harmonics etc. and might that be why
I like it better?  I think I also like it because I amplify it right on my
fiddle bridge so it seems like my own instrument making the sound.  At a
session, when I can't hear a pitch fork, I just tune to what seems to be
the average A.

- Kate

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Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.total.net/~dungreen


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