Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2006/03

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Other worlds
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:04:42 -0500

Bill, could there have been some miscommunication involved? If you said to
me that you "tune by ear" I might assume either that the teacher or your
daughter has "perfect pitch" or that they just guess at a starting pitch for
one string and tune the rest of the strings to it. People who don't have the
kind of pitch memory called "perfect pitch" generally use a mechanical
source of some kind - these days probably a tuner. You still "tune by ear"
to the tuner's pitch, which is I guess what you meant, but you're "using a
tuner," which may be what he meant, nonetheless.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:o4rmondtoby@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:28 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Other worlds
>
> Today I took my daughter's electric bass into the shop for repairs.
> During the conversation, the tech reminded me that some
> guitar teachers don't have an accurate tuner and hence their
> tuning cannot be trusted.
> I mentioned that my daughter and her teacher tune by ear.
>
> "By ear?' the technician gulped. "That's not the proper way!"
>
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