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Re: tuning

Author: William
Date: 2003-05-15 14:49

"A lot of people have been saying lately "It's better to play sharp than out of tune"!!"

HUH????????? "Out of tune" is out of tune, no matter what.

My version of that saying goes, "If you must be out of tune, it is better to be sharp than flat." (but it is still best to be in "cooperative harmony" with everyhone else)

Buy a tuner and learn your instruments tuning charateristics. Then learn to listen and adjust to others when necessary (no one is always right)

The "drone" method for developing listening and adjusting skills is very effective--time consuming, but time well spent. You will, however, find a discrepency between the two tuning systems: electronic tuner using the "just" system; and the "drone" method which tends toward the "tempered" tuning system (used by piano tuners) The two systems are in tune with themselves, but not in tune with each other because in tuning a keyboard, the mathmatical "just" system that exists in Nature does not work when adjusting for different tonalities in conjuction with each other. Playing perfectly in tune with your tuner will not insure that you will be in tune with your Steinway or the CSO. CYSO's advice about learning to listen is the best (and the hardest for those of us with galvanized ear)

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