[musictlk] Drop-C Tuning?

Wed Feb 12 22:15:28 UTC 2014

Josh,
	I wanted to ask about your message stating you tune your guitar in
drop-C. My perception of drop-C is a regular tuning with the 6th tuned to C
and the 5th tuned to G. This is the tuning I use to play Fleetwood Mac's
"Never Going Back Again". Tuning this way would be very difficult to play in
any other key than C, so I am curious if this is what you mean or if you
mean you tune your whole instrument down a Major 3rd.

Peace!
Marion

-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of josh lester
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 1:16 AM
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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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