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

[Tracy Carcione]

This would not be a perfect solution, but the Talking Tuner app tells me I'm 
"10 cents sharp", for example.  Thus, "25 cents sharp" should be a 
quarter-tone.  It also has an option to give a numeric value for a tone, 
which might be better for your purposes, but I've never tried it.
Tracy


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