[musictlk] Hi, I'm back!

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I am able to tune my guitar okay if I use the E key on my pitch pipe.
However, I am learning how to play the harmonica and when players bend
notes, they often use quarter tones, so my instructor wanted me to find an
accessible tuner that would tell me the quarter tones until I can hear them
correctly. I have relative pitch but not perfect pitch as some people do. 
Thanks
Lauren

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-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of josh lester
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 10:16 PM
To: Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Hi, I'm back!

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.
>
> 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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