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

[Poppa Bear]

I use that as well, but I have heard about more concise tuners, but the 
talking tuner app for IOS has been a nice tool for me to.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] musicians,accessible tuner for quarter tones


> 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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> From: "Poppa Bear" <heavens4real at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 9:15 PM
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> tones
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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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>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 4:57 PM
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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
>>>
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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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