Author: Scandinavian
Date: 2015-02-19 21:44
Cooper - if I offended you I sincerely apologize! That was never my intention and, as I stated - there is no right way. All ways are good except the bad ones, as my dear old teacher used to tell me.
I appreciate you sharing your working enviroment. If I was in your situation, I would probably do as you do. It must be frustrating? I am aware that we do have a good atmosphere going at the opera here. We seem to be able to discuss and solve most matters, be it musical or other, without anyone reacting irrational. Most of the time, anyway! We're in the same boat, and try to help each other to do our best.
We do sometimes use a tuner if we're not making any progress, it's nice to get a definitive answer sometimes, even though it's not always directly transferable, if you understand how I mean? More often we start with the lowest note in a chord, if it sounds ok we build it from there. More often than not it isn't actually a tuning issue, but a balance issue! If, for instance, the third is ever so slighly to loud the chord will sound out of tune.
I do use the tuner sometimes when pracising - I hold a note without looking at the tuner. When I'm sure about the tuning, I check the tuner. Quite revealing!
I also always check my reeds against the tuner, once they're finished, to be sure that they are where I want them to be. Most of the time I use the tuner when tuning the orchestra, but sometimes not. Seems to work either way..
I wrote my previous post since someone wrote that it was nice to hear a professional perspective on the tuner issue - I wanted to share my view. I don't want this to be a debate or discussion about right or wrong, since there is no right or wrong, right? I probably did a pretty bad job expressing myself.
Once again, I'm sorry if you felt attacked. I definitely could have expressed myself in a more subtle way.
jhoyla:
My dad has one of those cameras on his car. I just get really confused!
But, as I stated, I use the tuner when it's needed, I just don't use it most of the time. I might just learn how to use that camare too some day
Best regards from a snowy Umeå
Johannes
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