source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 05:42:39 +0100 Subject: Electronic tuner ad JI From: Alexandre Enkerli Hello to all! I was practicing with an electronic tuner and was thinking about just intervals and how to practice them. I play tenor in a classical saxophone quartet, so I'm used to thirds. But trying to tune them with an electronic tuner isn't that obvious. So I wanted to calculate how to calibrate the tuner to give me a just third at 440Hz. What I calculated was around 443.6 so I guess 444 will do fine but I'd be glad to hear some advice from you. BTW, what do you think of available automatic tuning software such as Frequency Meter, Oscilloscope 2.0 and the "Perfect Pitch" products? Obviously, a software JI tuner could be a very practical tool for some of us. I wonder why it should be *that* complicated to do. Apart from that, I'm currently playing with a Malian musician who tunes the six-strings of his instrument (a harp-lute similar to the kora) in something similar to the second mode of a major pentatonic scale but I haven't been able to precisely check his tuning. Apart from checking each string with an electronic tuner (which seems somewhat unscientific), what method would you recommend? Anyway, TIA for any help. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: bq912@freenet.uchsc.edu (Neil G. Haverstick) Subject: forum CD is happening PostedDate: 29-01-98 07:40:19 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 29-01-98 07:39:29-29-01-98 07:39:30,29-01-98 07:38:15-29-01-98 07:38:15 DeliveredDate: 29-01-98 07:38:15 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125659B.00248FA0; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:39:20 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01139; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:40:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:40:19 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01137 Received: (qmail 5143 invoked from network); 28 Jan 1998 22:39:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jan 1998 22:39:32 -0800 Message-Id: <199801290636.XAA09104@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu