Ideally, I like to have the tuner close to hand, but not on the headstock. But if there isn't anywhere good to put it, I'll leave it on. This isn't for prettiness. The things rattle. Now there are places where it's so noisy you'll never hear the rattle. For examples:
The pizza place. It can be so noisy there that without monitors I can't hear myself, much less the fiddle player standing 6 feet away. Likewise at many contra dances, when the dancers are stomping (after the beat, usually, thanks to the speed of sound) and the caller is calling, and we're playing in a really echoic gym, monitors are the difference between playing and not playing. When the sound is perfect and the audience attentive, yes I really want the tuner off, if possible. That's not usual, for me. Topher On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a time when I could tune all my instruments by ear, just pull an > A out of the air and tune to that. Well, 4 years of riding in helicopters > with no doors, 6 years as a Blacksmith and twenty years operating heavy > equipment I don't hear the overtones anymore, I need my tuner, on the > headstock, all the time, it's the lesser of two evils. > > Clyde Clevenger > Just My Opinion, But It's Right > Salem, Oregon > Old Circle <http://www.myspace.com/oldcircle> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hedding" <[email protected]> > To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 10:02:05 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? > > > > As I was recently seen in a compromising photo on the front page of a > Wisconsin paper with my tuner on my headstock I feel the need to come > out and say what's the big deal? > > For me it's not ideal I'll give you that but it's the lesser of two > evils, to me it looks even more silly to be reaching in to my pocket > and fiddling around after and many times during the middle of the > songs. Granted, maybe I need to lighten my touch a little on the > strings but hey I just want to be noticed I guess. > > Hopefully I'll just be able to tune by ear someday and everyone will > be better off. > > Mike > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
