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[josh lester]

Hi Lauren!
I don't know about accessible tuners, but I tune my guitar in drop C,
and if you're good with pitch, and knowing how things are supposed to
sound, that in itself would be a good way to tune.
I've never heard of the tones that you've mentioned, since I only play
Bluegrass Gospel when I play guitar.
Feel free to write me off list, if you have any other guitar questions.
Thanks, Joshua

On 2/7/14, Lauren Merryfield <lauren at catlines.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been on and off of this list, as with some others. Sometimes I get too
> many emails. But I have a question that someone may have already given me
> the answer to but I'll post my question here anyway because there might be
> more than one answer.
>
>
>
> 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
>
> PS:Someone did suggest the HotPaw talking tuner for the iPhone. I
> discovered
> it is only 99 cents so whenever I can get my crazy password done correctly,
> I'll download that app.
>
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