I second David's comment on tuning a clarsach. It certainly helps to have a
tuner if you have 30 some strings to get in tune. It truly does save time,
and I'd rather be playing than tuning endlessly. However, I do still tweak a
few strings after I use the tuner. Some tones just won't sound
John Chambers wrote:
Electronic tuners do have the advantage that they can be calibrated
to an untunable instrument...
When I play live or in a noisy set up, an electric tuner helps me tune
up when I can hardly hear my instrument. You might think that it
doesn't matter whether a mandolin's
Wendy Galovich wrote:
Might this variation in the harmonics also explain another phenomenon: two
instruments are tuned using the same electronic tuner, and when checked
against that, appear that they're in tune with each other, and each one
sounds in tune by itself, but.. when played
On Thursday 02 August 2001 00:09, you wrote:
The worst culprits seem to be fiddlers, who often have the attitude
Damded if I'll tune to an accordion. (Since I'm also a fiddler, I
can get away with such an observation. ;-)
Ha ha.. I guess I should have added, if I'm playing in a group I
In an e-mail whose subject was What makes a style Scottish?
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I was also fascinated by Alexander's statement: The ear's perception
of a note can vary so greatly that the literature uses two terms;
frequency...and pitch...and the two can vary by as much as a whole
tone... I
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
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 13:46, you wrote:
In an e-mail whose subject was What makes a style Scottish?
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I was also fascinated by Alexander's statement: The ear's perception
of a note can vary so greatly that the literature uses two terms;
frequency...and pitch...and
An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
what your ear is measuring, hearing, on a note on an acoustic
instrument is much more.
The electronic tuner doesn't measure the fundamental based on an A440
scale - it frequency-divides based on the fundamental which it is set
up to
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:38, you wrote:
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
Wendy writes:
| I'm not a big fan of electronic tuners either - my favorite tuning device
| is a tuning fork.. no batteries to run down, and no annoying little needle
| jumping around alternately indicating both sharp and flat on the same string.
I'm not a fan of either, though I own
- Original Message -
From: SUZANNE MACDONALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tone... I often disagree with what an electric tuner says is in tune
i bought a really fancy electronic tuner to help tune whistes. i used it for
my guitar one day, and my (now) wife (the violinist) says, that second
string
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