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Post by tawpick on Mar 31, 2016 9:16:00 GMT
Hi Tawpick on your tuner (or all tuners?), is it just the D and B strings that are calibrated for tempered tuning? And does that mean the others are calibrated for just tuning? What tuner are you using? Do snarks do the same? Thanks TT Deuce As I understand it ( and I could be wrong here ) the basic clip on type tuners like the snark tune the notes to a equal tempered scale. They are perfect for tuning up guitars and mandolins and as Michael has said you can use your ears to fine tune if you want to. You can get fancier tuners (strobe tuners ??) that can be adjusted to create 'sweeter' tunings. I've never used these types so can't speak for them. There's some info here on guitar tuning timberens.com/essays/tuning.htm . Just thinking back to the early 70's I don' ever recall thinking about this stuff at all. We'd set up our gear and shout to our mates 'Give us an E' and we'd all tune up to that note. Sounded fine to us at the time. I think I had a tin whistle at home to get a note to tune to. How things change
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 10:08:54 GMT
I guess I'm interested just to know how it all works - its great to have some info on stuff that I've never been aware of before. I don't think I'll ever change much from what I currently do, but I plan on taking just one guitar out live now and use up to 4 tunings, so I have recently fished out a clip-on from my pile of junk. Cheers TT
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Post by Michael Messer on Mar 31, 2016 11:40:45 GMT
I have had these tuning forks for 25 years, maybe more. I won't go into the whole story, but I believe they may have been used at the National factory in the 1920s. They were certainly used by a couple of National employees in that period. A=440 and C=523.3 The C is absolutely spot on, even after all these years, but the A is a few cents flat. I don't know if wear & tear has done that, or if it was always that way. They are very beautiful and they sound wonderful Shine On Michael
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Post by lexluthier on Mar 31, 2016 23:15:58 GMT
Hi Michael. Wonderful little items to be custodian of, thank you for sharing those with us! Especially interesting of course is the information impressed into them. Wikipedia tells us that A440 was informally adopted in the US in 1926 but I wouldn't want to risk my life on what Wiki' says, as interesting and useful as it can be. I appreciate some immutable evidence for a change, thanks again. Chris
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