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

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I thought about that. Hmmm. More email. Well, I might join anyway and hope
it isn't a terribly busy list.
Thanks
Lauren

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-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:01 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] musicians, accessible tuner for quarter
tones

If you don't get a good answer here -- you might try our music talk list
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/musictlk_nfbnet.org to join, as I
know this has been discussed there in the past.

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?
>
>
>
>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.
>
>
>
>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
>
>
>
>advice from my cats: "meow when you feel like it."
>
>"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and 
>cats." ~
>
>
>Albert Schweitzer
>
>curious about Thirty-One? New spring lineup now available:
>
>www.LettingTheCatOutOfTheBag.com
>
>Purchase my new book:there's more than one way to be okay at:
>
>www.TheresMoreThanOneWay.com
>
>Cat lovers, please visit me at:
>
>www.catlines.com


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