| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L]Instrument Stability | | Date: | Saturday, January 28, 2006 23:09:52 (-0800) | | From: | Lynn Oliver <chief06 @.......net>
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> Do you stretch your new strings during the changing
> process?
I do stretch them. And when tuning if a string is just a little sharp, I
usually tug on it a bit as opposed bringing it flat and back up to pitch
with the tuner.
> And one should be able to tune by ear. With these
> modern electronic tuners, it seems to be becoming a
> lost art.
The electronic tuners are useful for training your ear. I tune the third to
the tuner, then tune the first by ear to the third. When I think I've got
it, I check with the tuner, and most of the time I can get the fifth
interval just as close as the tuner can measure. Then I do the second so
that it sounds right with the first and third, but I'm not as consistent yet
with the second. Of course it ends up a bit flat as registered on the
tuner. Finally I tune the lower three by octaves from the upper three,
listening for beats to go away.
I think this method is essentially the same as what Rob Ickes teaches.
I figure that playing is as much about hearing as it is anything else, so
why not take every opportunity to train your ear?
Lynn
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