![]() ![]() A quick 19th fret check after straightening out the bridge and back in business.Ī tuner is all that is needed. ![]() Sure enough, the grimace look was now a smirk to the right. My, myself, and I tuning my banjo sounds fine every time. I prefer to pass around the same tuner if necessary, just to avoid the inaccuracies of spec tolerances between tuners. Tuners allow everyone to play their instruments together.īy manual tuning do you mean using your ears to match pitches, via hearing the beats of being close and adjusting?Ĭlip ons are a godsend in a noisy setting, but otherwise can deceive one into thinking they are solidly in tune.ĥ people relying solely on 5 different clip on tuners will not be in tune with one another unless they listen and adjust to the group as a whole, which requires good ears. I personally always check the entire instrument with itself after consulting a tuner or reference pitch. Then there's the idiosyncrasies of fretted instruments with their compromised tuning. This is the exception for these classes, not the usual. They all can tune by ear and usually have their instruments in tune by the time class starts. This session I have a class that is all former musicians (high school band and some who played guitar) and they are all at least 40 (one may be younger but she also plays violin and piano and is the most dedicated to practicing). I teach ukulele classes at the local state university and see beginner, non musicians really struggle with being in tune and hearing that they are not in tune. ![]() Then when they've 'tuned' all of their strings, one after another, they think they are in tune without rechecking the first few strings to see if they have drifted from the changing of the other strings. "Close enough" is not in tune, "in tune" is in tune. These inexpensive tuners aren't all that great anyway.įor sure there are players today who have no ear to speak of, and they don't spend much time listening as they tune so the inaccuracies of the cheap electronics go right over their head or they think that it is close enough and move on to the next string. I think there must be some younger pickers who are so reliant on tuners that they lack the ear training the old ways provided. I almost miss the days when you had to tune by ear. I have a Snark "Herz" tuner, which you can use to get the exact unit of frequency. Instead, on the fly, I just perch it on the flange, check a couple of notes of the tuning, and put it back in my pocket. I could mount it on the brackets, but it is "not pleasing aesthetically" (how's that for a banjo picker's idiosyncrasy ). Instead, use it only for the initial tuning and maybe a retuning if I drop the 4th string down to C. For example, 2nd string 3rd fret to match exactly the open 1st string, since these two notes are frequently sounded together or in succession.Īs a result, for me, I don't have a need to have the tuner connected to the banjo at all times when playing. So, there are all the other little tweaks to get the banjo to sound in tune when actually played. The null space on either side of the "in tune" is too large- the same two notes can show as "in tune" while one can be above and the other below and sounding them together won't be in tune. These inexpensive tuners aren't all that great anyway, for tuning a banjo. ![]()
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