To tune your ukulele by ear, listen to the pitches as a point of reference for tuning your ukulele. Then, play the top g-string audio. As the sound is playing, hum the note and get it in your head. Do this befor
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Piano Re-Stringing This is certainly another one of the common procedures that pianos are going to need to remain in decent shape. We usually don't want to jump the gun on something like this. There are other ways to be able to tune a piano without necessarily re-stringing. When it ...
Chromatic tuners come in many brands and styles. The very best electronic piano tuners, referred to as "Electronic Tuning Devices" or ETDs by pros, are $500 to $1800 or more. For the do-it-yourself method in this tutorial, anychromatictuner can work.Be careful with "guitar tuners"; som...
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Once we arrived back at the shop, we promptly took the piano apart. Here are some photos from the day. After taking the piano apart, we reused the parts and made a leather workstation in my shop. Check the video below for more. Give the video a few seconds to clear up. https://...
Why does it happen in the first place? The piano has been around for hundreds of years, haven’t piano technicians and manufacturer’s figured out a way around this problem? Well, one thing to keep in mind is that an acoustic piano is made out of thousands of parts, all interacting und...
9 Meanwhile, just intonation tuning was also clearly used, most specifically in harmonics played at the 3rd, 6th, 8th or 11th hui, something generally avoided in pieces developed during the Qing dynasty. As for equal temperament, although it seems likely that it was first theorized by Zhu Zai...
Ready for advanced tuning? Try tuning to an "A-440" tuning fork. Directions: hold on to the base of the tuning fork, and tap the tines against something hard like your knee. Then, while still holding the base of the tuning fork, gently touch the ball of the tuning fork to your viol...
When I play in the pit for shows, I’m constantly re-tuning during the dialogues. I’ve even replaced broken strings during dialogues. In orchestral concerts if I hear something wacky, I try to tune the offending string(s) as inconspicuously as possible. Stravinsky is believed to have ...