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

[Poppa Bear]

I posted the question on another music list I am on, I will let you know if 
anything comes back.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren Merryfield" <lauren at catlines.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] musicians,accessible tuner for quarter tones


> 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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>
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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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