The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126896 Message #2825456
Posted By: Nick
30-Jan-10 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Instruments-Embarassing Moments
Subject: RE: Instruments-Embarassing Moments
Like the last post, a friend of mine has an electronic tuner that has a button that he wasn't aware of which is a semitone different. He played and I thought I'm way out of tune so tuned to him. Next was a set of fiddle tunes and as I knew I had just tuned my guitar I dived in a semitone out. Whoops. Retuned with me looking daggers at the fiddles and them returning for being so far out. Right. Borrow the tuner again to check...
It was only later that he found the little button on the side that he had clicked by mistake.
Clapton in his drinking days apparently spent most of a gig playing a semitone out from the rest of the band. Bizarrely noone seemed to care.