[Electronics-talk] musicians, accessible tuner for quarter tones

[David Andrews]

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Dave

At 02:10 PM 2/6/2014, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a question for blind musicians out there. I have two different tuners
>for my guitar. One is a pitch pipe with the six notes corresponding to the
>notes for the 6 guitar strings. The other is a pitch pipe type tuner that is
>round and plays the twelve notes of a chromatic scale. The notes are all
>whole tones, sharps or flats.
>
>
>
>Sighted people can get tuners that visually show them whether their guitar
>string or any other instrument is in tune or not and it can show quarter
>tones between whole tones, sharps and flats.
>
>
>
>My question is:is there such a thing as an accessible tuner that blind
>musicians can use that will tell you the exact pitch of what you are
>playing, including quarter tones? Is there such a pitch pipe that would play
>the sounds of quarter tones or a tuner that tells you by synthetic speech or
>some other way, audible or tactile?
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>In American and European music, we mostly deal with whole tones, sharps and
>flats, however in music of other countries such as India, the Middle East,
>Asia, etc, they make use of quarter tones.
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>Well, I sure hope there is someone on this list who knows what in the world
>I am asking (it's new to me) and can point me to such a tuner.
>
>Thanks
>
>Lauren
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