[musictlk] Hi, I'm back!

Timothy Clark Music theblindguitarist1992 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 18:01:40 UTC 2014


Lorin, just bend a half step. 
 take your pointer finger, lay it on the string and literally bend the string.
On Adar I 7, 5774 AM, at 2:18, josh lester <jlestermusic at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can walk you through the bends.
> I need a new high E string on my guitar, and then we can work.
> We can take this off list, so we don't clutter everyone's inboxes, if
> you don't mind.
> Thanks, Joshua
> 
> On 2/7/14, Lauren Merryfield <lauren at catlines.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 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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>> Purchase my new book:there's more than one way to be okay at:
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>> Cat lovers, please visit me at:
>> www.catlines.com
>> 
>> 
>> -----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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