[musictlk] MusicTlk Digest, Vol 156, Issue 1

[peter acosta]

Tuning an autoharp is not an easy task… Much like tuning a piano. I have friends that are professional piano players and attempted to tune a piano with an application and are unable to do it.
My suggestion to you is to get a professional to do it.

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>   1. Help in tuning my new autoharp (Tara Briggs)
>   2. Re: Help in tuning my new autoharp (Ella Yu)
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> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 21:32:50 -0600
> From: Tara Briggs <thflute at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [musictlk] Help in tuning my new autoharp
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> Hi all! I just purchased a new autoharp. If anyone is curious, it is an older style Oscar Schmidt 20 1C. I think it was probably made in the 80s or 90s. Anyway, I have tried to tune it using the Talking Tuner app. All I have done so far is to get the  high C  on the thing from playing slightly flat to now playing a high B  that is sharp. Any help would be great! The other problem I am running into, is that the Talking Tuner app does not always hear the autoharp. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thank you so much for any help! I am a bit stuck right now.
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> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 20:58:16 -0700
> From: Ella Yu <ellaxyu at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [musictlk] Help in tuning my new autoharp
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> Research the tuning of the autoharp, and use your ears or a piano to
> decide if you've tuned the strings properly.
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>> On 8/1/17, Tara Briggs via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi all! I just purchased a new autoharp. If anyone is curious, it is an
>> older style Oscar Schmidt 20 1C. I think it was probably made in the 80s or
>> 90s. Anyway, I have tried to tune it using the Talking Tuner app. All I have
>> done so far is to get the  high C  on the thing from playing slightly flat
>> to now playing a high B  that is sharp. Any help would be great! The other
>> problem I am running into, is that the Talking Tuner app does not always
>> hear the autoharp. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thank you so much for
>> any help! I am a bit stuck right now.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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