[musictlk] Accessible Tuners?

[David Andrews]

There has also been discussion of accessible tuners here in the 
past.  Someone could go to:
http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/musictlk_nfbnet.org

to search the archive.

Dave

At 11:33 AM 8/25/2012, you wrote:
>Hello,
>Just use:
>http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer
>to get your ear working perfectly and get your do re mi perfect and 
>apply that to your instrument. I would do some research to see what 
>scale your instrument starts on and just play like a two-five octave 
>scale up to the top and back down.
>Also, what you could do is record a perfect note for each string, or 
>one note if it is a wind instrument and then adjust your head or 
>your string to that. What you could also do is get a pitch pipe. I 
>love my pitch pipe and never go anywhere without it.
>Thanks,
>
>Brandon Keith Biggs
>-----Original Message----- From: kwakmiso at aol.com
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:18 AM
>To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] Accessible Tuners?
>
>Thank you all for the replies.
>I am in high school wind ensemble/marching band, so the director trains
>students to tune with ear by listening to each other, but also uses
>tools because it's more efficient and accurate before going into a
>festival or competition. Also, he encourages students to use such tools
>to learn tendencies on each note on our instruments.
>I do not own iPhone but if I someday do, I will obtain the app Sheri
>mentioned.
>Miso Kwak
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com>
>To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 8:23 am
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] Accessible Tuners?
>
>You could use a piano. But unless you have enough vision to see a red
>or
>green light flashing, I don't think there is such thing.
>I have a guitar tuner that has a red light or a green light when I am
>in
>Tune or not. It is much easier now just to tune from the intervals, but
>I
>used it for a while. I actually find that now I am much more in tune
>than I
>ever was with the tuner. Probably because I tune from the pitch that
>reaches
>my ears and the tuner tuned from the pure vibration.
>Thanks,
>
>Brandon Keith Biggs
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sheri Beth Wells-Jensen
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:51 AM
>To: Music Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] Accessible Tuners?
>
>Sure, but on the way to that goal, a person could use some support: and
>having tuned in some not-so-ideal places, I find a little mechanical
>help
>handy.  There's a nice accessible tuner that gives you 5-cent
>incriments on
>the iPhone.  Sorry, I know, not everybody has an iPhone, but that's the
>nicest accessible set of tools I've found.
>
>Sheri
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On
>Behalf Of Data
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:48 AM
>To: Music Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] Accessible Tuners?
>
>In my humble opinion, all musicians should be able to tune their
>instruments
>by ear.
>-Andy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
>Behalf Of kwakmiso at aol.com
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 1:47 AM
>To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [musictlk] Accessible Tuners?
>
>
>Instrumentalists,
>I would like to know if there is any tuner available, that can tell you
>how
>much flat or sharp you are for a given pitch exactly.
>I use a metronome that has a tuner in it. The only prolblem is that it
>only
>plays an A and I just have to match it with my ear.
>In my wind ensemble class, students use stroke tuner and a tuner that
>tells
>you how much sharp or flat your sound is. Is there any accessible
>device for
>that?
>Miso Kwak