source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:43:31 +0100 Subject: Just Sax From: "Bob Lee" Alexandre Enkerli wrote: >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. I'm a pedal steel guitarist. Most steel guitarists use a tuning meter, the kind with an analog needle, to tune on the bandstand. The accepted practice is to tune the instrument by ear in a quiet place, calibrate your tuner to 440, and then measure everything with the tuner and write it down. You then use the chart to tell you how many cents sharp or flat to tune a given note on the bandstand. The chart varies a bit according to the characteristics of the particular instrument (steel guitars aren't perfect), but there are examples in steel guitar literature that give good starting points. Using such a meter with a sax should be really easy. Partch's "Genesis" has charts that show the cents for every note in JI. Just blow into the mike and tune sharp or flat according to those charts. Since you're only playing one note at a time, you have a much simpler problem than a steel guitarist. I love classical sax quartets, by the way. Someday I'd like to hear a steel guitar with one. Talk about modern! -b0b- // http://wco.com/~quasar/ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Carl Lumma Subject: Mixed-Mode PostedDate: 30-01-98 21:16:44 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: 30-01-98 21:15:50-30-01-98 21:15:51,30-01-98 21:14:34-30-01-98 21:14:34 DeliveredDate: 30-01-98 21:14:34 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 C125659C.006F4D8D; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:15:43 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02853; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:16:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:16:44 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02851 Received: (qmail 9932 invoked from network); 30 Jan 1998 12:15:56 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Jan 1998 12:15:56 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980114151114.007d0100@nni.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu