The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157835   Message #3727967
Posted By: Bill D
03-Aug-15 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Do We Need This Device?
Subject: RE: Tech: Do We Need This Device?
On an autoharp, the middle octave sounds pretty good using my old KORG...but the lower notes and to some extent, the higher ones, need some tweaking.... (the "relative tuning" referred to above). I had a discussion with Bryan Bowers 40 years ago where he explained to problem. I DO think that an electronic tuner could/should be designed so that one could adjust it to one's 'relative pitch' (what the ear hears) for each string. I already tune the autoharp 'slightly' below dead center for most lower notes. (I simply don't hear the high notes well enough to bother... but *shrug*.. who can hear teeny differences in most autoharps anyway? ;>))