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Podagee57
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 11/30/2007 : 08:38:48 AM
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OK Mark....fluorescent lighting?
Ever listen to 'em? Well, if you've ever been in a room with florescent lighting, you can't help but to listen to the constant buzz they put out. Gawdawful sound, if you ask me. Even new fixtures buzz; the older ones put out quite a racket. Sad to say, most folks who have to work in that environment learn to tune them out (so to speak).
For me, the buzz makes it very hard to hear the overtones of each string well enough to get in tune.
Aaaaahhhh, I get it now. Kinda like trying to sing in key with the drone of my very loud exhaust system in my work truck. I wonder what key it is in at about 60 mph.
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What? You mean high "E" is the TOP string. No way dude! That changes everything! |
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2007 : 1:20:00 PM
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If you get a nail in your tire, it Bb.
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2007 : 10:15:48 PM
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| A little story is warranted. The first real group I played with managed to line up a gig at a hair salon. The pay was right. A plate lunch from Masa's massive Plate lunch and a case of beer. I think we tuned to an A 440 tuning fork cause i think most of wanted to emulate a symphony orchestra or something. Any way thats where we got the 440 idea. So we passed the fork around and tuned the A string and then used relative tuning to get the other strings to match up and we actually sounded together. It was quite a group since a couple of the guys went on to play for real like one guy whose name was Guy ended up playing guitar for Moe Keale. Any it was Guy who knew the owner of the hair salon. So we go in and play and then when the hair dryer was running we sounded bad because the hair dryer was like in a flat G shrp or something and we never thought of tuning to the Hair dryer cause we thought that concert pitch should be the deciding factor. So florescent lights and hair dryers can interfere with tuning. The food was great and in those days we got heineken so who could complain. The best paid gig I ever played since. |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
1628 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2007 : 09:33:54 AM
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Great story, Al!
My high school band used to tune to the dial tone, which was something close to Bb. And it was a real dial tone, too.
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Podagee57
Lokahi
USA
280 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2007 : 11:11:05 AM
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Originally posted by rendesvous1840
If you get a nail in your tire, it Bb.
Paul
hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
At first I thought wha?...That hit me just right and really cracked me up....Thanks Paul. |
What? You mean high "E" is the TOP string. No way dude! That changes everything! |
Edited by - Podagee57 on 12/02/2007 11:12:48 AM |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
1533 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2007 : 11:26:49 AM
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Here's a link to the self-tuning guitar from Gibson:
www.tronical.com
Jesse
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2007 : 10:13:52 PM
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| I saw in one magazine cost of guitar + $900.00 for the self tuning option. Of course that is the list. Maybe can get discount li'dat. |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 12/06/2007 : 5:24:35 PM
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I still carry an A-440 fork in my guitar case.
Years ago, I was at a Bluegrass jam. A weather front moved through the area and knocked us all out of tune. We recovered and kept on. In standard tuning, I find that a G chord and an E chord help in finnessing the tuning. |
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