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Topic: l@@k TUNING- EVERYONE SAY A LITTLE SOMETHING your opinion?? |
Gary Steele
From:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 2:45 pm |
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I have tried a lot of different tunings. But it seems like when i tune the E's to 440 and tune several strings to it and so on it seems like the steel sounds and plays easier. A while back i was talking about tuning and a guy sent me something saying here is a good way to tune by ear and he tunes like i am saying here. I think he tunes the G#'s, B's and maybe a few others to the E and then some of the other notes he tunes to other notes. When i'm tuning,there seems to be a sweet spot in there that sounds awesome. I wonder how many people tune by ear like this. I done this with my Rains and programmed it in my strobe and seemed to work good every time. But with my Franklin it dont seem to be in tune. This tuning method this guy sent me a while back seems to really be a good one. I'm trying to remember who he was. I'm gonna program my Franklin in the tuner like this also. You guys that play a Franklin let me know what gauge strings you like best for your Franklin if you will. Send an email if you will. I have a Lexicon MPX-1 Like John Hughey had with the ssettings he used thanks to Buddy Castleberry and it is FANTABULOS!!!
Lets R@LL!
Thanks, Gary. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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Scott Denniston
From:
Hahns Peak, Colorado, USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 5:34 pm
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| Tu ning? Is that a Chinese song? |
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Ken Metcalf
From:
San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 5:46 pm
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Yeah BUT my little friend tunes to his harmonica
 
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 21 Jan 2008 8:33 pm
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I tune to a Glockenspiel. It never changes its pitch.
(Also known as the Bell Lyre.) |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 11:10 am
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I never had a tuner for the first 40 years of my playing career until I go a used Conn Strobocon, in the 70's in Phoneix. I got that to give to the band so they would get in tune. That ended our tuning compatabilty problems, with the Lead guitar and the Bass....al.
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Ron !
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 11:48 am
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My room mate swears by it
Last edited by Ron ! on 22 Jan 2008 11:50 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 11:48 am
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when I started out playing I used a tuning fork to get my E then tuned by ear.
Now since the age of tuners and a noisy band on stage I use my Strobo-Flip which I have programed to my ear settings. |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 1:49 pm
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Today I was playing along with a couple of songs and noticed that I wasn't quite in tune with the record, I was using the sweet E9th on the flip strobe and decided to try tuning to 440 on all strings except the E's 442 as there is little if any cabinet drop on the Sierra and lo and behold what a suprise the guitar sounded great and perfectly
in tune with the record. |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 2:53 pm
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| Just tune to the singer - never fails!!! |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 3:00 pm
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| just tune to the singer |
My guitar has not got that much adjustment.. |
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Gary Preston
From:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 3:46 pm
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 Michael havn't we danced to this song many times before ? Gary you will get tired of the answers long before you are satisfied with what you are asking for ! |
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Bill Dobkins
From:
Rolla Missouri, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 3:53 pm
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The EAR'S have it.
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Honor our Vet's.
Now pass the gravy. |
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Gene H. Brown
From:
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
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Posted 22 Jan 2008 4:00 pm look tuning
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If in doubt, tune all strings to the Drummer's tom toms, always works
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Tamara James
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Posted 23 Jan 2008 9:50 am Re: look tuning
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| Gene H. Brown wrote: |
| If in doubt, tune all strings to the Drummer's tom toms, always works |
Ahh, that is what I am doing wrong..I been tuning to the snare... |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 3:26 am
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| Tune to the tuner, then tweak by ear. Isn't this the way it should be done? |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 5:09 am
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E's and B's to 440....rest is by my "ears" open and pedals/knees. This is how Paul F recommended it!! The great Gypsy guitarists like Django Reinhardt never had luxuries like tuners, never affected their tuning
Micky Byrne United kingdaom |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 6:50 am
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Mr Doggett?
EJL |
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Rex Myers
From:
Risingsun Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 7:34 am Tuning
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I agree with Bobby Lee  and Michael 
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 11:26 am
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| Roger, we refer to that as "We tune with the tuner, then we tune without it!" Works! |
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Roger Francis
From:
kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 12:52 pm
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| I tune the Es to 440 with A&B pedals down then tune the rest by ear. It's the only way i've found that does'nt clash with the other intruments on stage. |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 3:34 pm
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Nayh...they're doin' fine without us, Eric. Take a reference from a meter, tune it by ear, play it by ear.
But for the question about whether to tune the Es to the reference with the pedals up or down, I don't see any basis for choosing one way over the other. If you have a little cabinet drop, if you tune to the ref. with the pedals up, the Es (and whatever else you tune to them) will be flat with the pedals down. If you tune to the ref. with the pedals down, the Es (and whatever else you tune to them) will be sharp with the pedals up. Neither way will be a problem except possibly on the open strings without the bar. I split the difference. I tune the Es without the pedals to 441. Then with the pedals down the Es may be around 439. |
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Roger Francis
From:
kokomo,Indiana, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2008 5:04 pm
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| Which comes out to be the same thing, after tuning with pedals down to 440 then it's 441 pedals up. I just use the 440 as the refrence instead of 441. |
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