Re: [Harp-L] tuner

["john" <jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey David, John T here.  The slide with the wood button works
just great on my auggie chromatic.  Thanks so much again!

Don't you think the success of tuning by ear or by tuner also 
has to do with the temperament you end up with?  If all reeds are 
tuned to zero cents on either a digital or strobe tuner, then
of course the tuning will be equal temperament; chords will sound
pretty rough.  But if reeds are tuned the needed number of cents
sharp or flat to make a just tuning, then chords will sound great.
My $25 tuner has a label on it that tells me how many cents
to detune each reed on a diatonic for a compromise tuning.

What I learned from working with a piano tuner is that he wasn't
comparing pitches, he was counting beats per second.  I think
Pat has a beat-count method for just-tuning diatonics described
on his website patmissin.com.

ublokr


====== At 2008-06-24, 09:28:07 David Payne wrote: =======
>Tim Moyer <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>I can't imagine trying to tune very much using a $30 tuner. In that 
>case, I would probably use the tuner to set a reference reed and tune 
>the rest of the harp relative to the reference rather than to the 
>tuner. 
>
>-tim
>
>   
>   
>  Yes, Tim's right, that's really the only way to do it very well. Use the tuner for reference pitch at 1 blow, etc., then tune the rest of the harp by ear from that. I've got a friend who tunes harmonicas for a living at a harp factory, he says for tuning his stuff at home, he uises a Petersen strobe tuner sometimes, but it is not as accurate a tuner as his ear. Most of us will probably never get to that point, my ear is not as accurate, but there is some potential there if you're willing to train the ear. 
>  All that said, it would be easier to buy a strobe tuner. 
>
>
>  Dave
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Best regards.				 
john
jjthaden@xxxxxxxxx
2008-06-24