| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Monday, November 5, 2007 16:01:00 (-0000) | | From: | Lennie Harvey <lh @............com>
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Have to agree with Lee on this. Surely the aim is to make the guitar sound
in tune with the bar straight across the strings, the best way to do this
is to make it sound in tune with no bar.
Tune the 3rd string (G) to a reference, tuner, tuning fork, tuning pipe,
whatever. Tune the 6th string by ear. Then tune the D strinsg by ear,
which is pretty easy to hear, then tune the high B string up to pitch by
playing all three top strings and listening for the swell when they are in
tune. Then tune the low B string to the high B string.
If your ear is good enough to place your bar accurately for the B note on
the G string without a reference point then it is surely good enough to
tune the strings open.... If you are relying on the frets then you won't
be in tune, see othe threads about well-tempered scales, just scales and
the flattened B string.....
> On 11/5/07, bobmcevoy@comcast.net <bobmcevoy@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> My bar placement isn't accurate enough to do this reliably. I find it
> much more accurate to tune one string to a reference and then the
> others to that string - directly or indirectly - by ear in open G or
> D.
>
> For reference, a tuning fork is nice, or perhaps even the guitar
> player if I'm playing along with one. But most of the time I use a
> Strobo-Flip.
>
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> Lee Hiers, AA4GA
> "Have Dobro Will Travel"
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