Re: [Harp-L] tuner
You will read an awful lot of guff about this. First, you need to know what
harmonica tuning is all about, and the best way to do this is to download
Pat Missin's superb treatise on this and study it well. You will find a
link to this at http://www.patmissin.com/tunings/tunings.html
Second, do not pay a fortune for a tuner. You can get a little Seiko
chromatic tuner for £15 or so, don't ask me what that is in bucks but it's
very few. Unless you are an ultra-professional you do not need to get every
reed of your harp to within a cent or a tenth of a cent of "what it should
be" (whatever that is). If you don't believe me just try telling your
guitar man that he's out by a cent and watch the air turn blue. A cheapie
tuner will give you a perfectly good idea of where you are apropos tuning.
I've been out tonight at my session with harps that I've given only the most
cursory checking-over for weeks and weeks, and (apart from the one with the
reed that had obviously gone south), they were in tune better than any of
the mandolins and fiddles, and as for the twelve-string guitar - sheesh!
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