| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Monday, November 5, 2007 08:07:30 (-0500) | | From: | Gerry Brown <gerbro @.....com>
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I recently splurged and bought a Peterson Strobo Flip tuner. It has several
pre-programmed "sweetened" tunings built in, including two G tunings for
dobro. One of them drops the B strings 13.7 cents and the other is called
"half tempered" and drops them 6.8 cents. This tuner is incredibly
sensitive.... so sensitive that you need a very light touch on your tuning
pegs to land exactly on pitch. I don't totally grasp the theory behind
temperament, but the Peterson manual says this...
"Musical temperaments are systems used to determine where each note in the
octave (12 notes) is to be placed in relation to the others.
The most commonly used temperament in modern music is the Equal Temperament,
in which the space or interval between each note and its immediate neighbor
is always 100.0 cents".
I've had the same sense that the less expensive digital tuners are not all
that precise. As challenging as it is for me to manage my intonation up the
neck it really helps to start out with a very accurate tuning.
Gerry
On 11/5/07, bobmcevoy@comcast.net <bobmcevoy@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Sometimes I think these inexpensive tuners are not sensitive enough. One
> can change the string sound but the needle doesn't move. I have 3 or 4 of
> them and they are all the same.
>
> I like to tune the top two strings together at the 3rd fret (bar the
> second string and play the first string open) and to tune the 3rd and the
> second together (bar the 3rd and play the second open) etc. This is the
> only way I know to make sure that you can play the open strings in tune.
>
> This was the way I was taught to tune an instrument back before
> tuners. So much less fuss and soo accurate.
>
>
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