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Topic: Tuning by the telephone
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Sherman Willden
Member From: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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posted 18 September 2005 11:21 PM
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From guitarsite.com Ever been stuck without an electronic tuner, pitchpipe, or any method of getting your instrument in tune, when you'd do just about anything to get a reference tone? No problem, just pick up the phone, and listen to the dialtone! It's very close to an "F" note, anywhere in the United States, and maybe in some other countries, too. Guitar players can use this "F" note to tune the first string at the first fret, then just tune the rest of your guitar to that string. Call it a Teletuner! |
Rick Nicklas
Member From: Pleasant Ridge, Mo
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posted 19 September 2005 01:30 AM
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In the days before electronic tuners everyone always tuned to the most stubborn guy in the band. And in many cases this is still true (even though the whole band has tuners). |
Dan Beller-McKenna
Member From: Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 02:59 AM
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Actually it is the interval of a major third: F and A above. And it's not just very close, it is an F below A 440 plus a perfect A 440. I had our piano tuner check with his super-duper tuner last time he was here. I've always tuned my guitar this way. My steel is too far from the phone, so I use an A 440 tuning fork and work outward from there.Dan ------------------
Dan Beller-McKenna
Durham, NH
Dekley S-10, Telecaster, Guild D-35, Peavey Heritage VTX
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Billy Wilson
Member From: El Cerrito, California, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 03:52 AM
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You can also tune a string to a note about a semi tome flat of B natural by holding it in front of a television and using the screen as a strobe. I can't imagine why anyone would want to do this. It just shows the I watch too much television while playing my baritone uke. |
Per Berner
Member From: Skövde, Sweden
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posted 19 September 2005 03:58 AM
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Over here it's a near perfect A. I just pick up the phone and start humming the note while walking over to my music room. Not the most precise of methods, but for 6-string guitar it's OK when you're in a hurry. |
Charlie McDonald
Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 04:40 AM
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You can also tune a string by holding it in front of a television
This takes the tuning prize. |
Dan Beller-McKenna
Member From: Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 06:06 AM
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So, let me get this straight:If tuning to the phone is a teletuner, does that mean tuning to the TV is a ... Telecaster?  Dan ------------------
Dan Beller-McKenna
Durham, NH
Dekley S-10, Telecaster, Guild D-35, Peavey Heritage VTX
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John Macy
Member From: Denver, CO USA
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posted 19 September 2005 08:44 AM
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That's cool--then you can phone in your part while you're on the line... |
b0b
Sysop From: Cloverdale, California, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 10:18 AM
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If tuning to the phone is a teletuner, does that mean tuning to the TV is a ... Telecaster?
No, telecasting is fly fishing by phone. That's a whole nuther topic. |
Dick Wood
Member From: Springtown Texas, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 11:15 AM
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OH GREAT! now I got find a place in my pac-a seat for the telephone.------------------
Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
Matt Martin
Member From: Palm Harbor, Florida, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 02:24 PM
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I always tune by the phone....it's always within a few feet of me at all times. |
David Mason
Member From: Cambridge, MD, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 03:19 PM
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My garbage compactor plays a Bb, guess I'll have to take up with that jazz music. I tried stepping on the cat's tail, but he's inconsistent. |
jim milewski
Member From: stowe, vermont
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posted 19 September 2005 04:26 PM
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got a call from my neighbor, he says I'm out of tune, that counts...right? |
Dan Beller-McKenna
Member From: Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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posted 19 September 2005 06:59 PM
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Hey David,
that's really freaky! That's the same pitch black holes emit. And, after all, a trash compactor is just a mini black hole, dontcha think?Check it out: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_note_030909.html Dan ------------------
Dan Beller-McKenna
Durham, NH
Dekley S-10, Telecaster, Guild D-35, Peavey Heritage VTX
[This message was edited by Dan Beller-McKenna on 19 September 2005 at 06:59 PM.]
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Charlie McDonald
Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA
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posted 20 September 2005 04:16 AM
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If only I had Edwin Hubble's ears....tuning to the cosmos;
it would make Ravi
Shankar jealous! |
Gary Spaeth
Member From: Wisconsin, USA
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posted 20 September 2005 06:33 AM
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i used to plug a cord in my amp and hold the open end to get a 60 cycle hum. the low b on e9 can be tuned slightly sharp of an octace higher than that. 2 beats/sec sharp.[This message was edited by Gary Spaeth on 20 September 2005 at 06:39 AM.] |
Bobby Lee
Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA
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posted 20 September 2005 10:48 AM
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Tuning to the 60 cycle hum - I love it!  Only works in North America, though. |
Jim Bates
Member From: Alvin, Texas, USA
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posted 20 September 2005 06:57 PM
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In the 'old days', early 50's, when I had just bought my first lap steel, you could get the WWV time on the shortwave radio and when they announced " At the sound of the tone, it will be...." That tone was exactly A440.To tune to C, you could use the NBC tones on their station break. G-E-C. I had a pitch pipe, but it changed pitch depending how hard you blew it. Just some more tuning trivia for you all. Thanx,
Jim |
Jim Cohen
Member From: Philadelphia, PA
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posted 20 September 2005 08:35 PM
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Gee, I'm sure there's some tone in my cellphone that's always in my pocket that I could use for a reference... |
David Mason
Member From: Cambridge, MD, USA
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posted 21 September 2005 04:18 AM
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I guess buying a tuner would be superfluous at this point. |
Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 23 September 2005 10:06 AM
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If there is a piano or accordian in the group, you're all supposed to get in tune with it right? or wrong? HOW does it sound if you don't do it?If you've got two necks and twenty strings or more and everyone else has only 4--6 strings, BECOME THE MOST STUBBORN GUY IN THE BAND and require them to tune to YOU, WHERE EVER your "E" can be found. To heck with pitch pipes, telephones, 60 cycle hums, radio station "tones" and this or that, and all of that crappola, as the most difficult instrument to tune, is the MASTER of pitch. |
Ray Minich
Member From: Limestone, New York, USA
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posted 23 September 2005 02:05 PM
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For Jim Bates:Must be you can still get the 440 A by telephone... From the NIST website:
The audio portions of the WWV and WWVH broadcasts can also be heard by telephone. The time announcements are normally delayed by less than 30 ms when using land lines from within the continental United States, and the stability (delay variation) is generally < 1 ms. When mobile phones are used, the delays are often more than 100 ms due to the multiple access methods used to share cell channels. In rare instances when the telephone connection is made by satellite, the time is delayed by 250 to 500 ms. To hear these broadcasts, dial (303) 499-7111 for WWV (Colorado), and (808) 335-4363 for WWVH (Hawaii). Callers are disconnected after 2 minutes. These are not toll-free numbers; callers outside the local calling area are charged for the call at regular long-distance rates. The telephone service is very popular. The WWV number receives over 1 million calls per year, and the WWVH number receives more than 50,000. |
Paddy Long
Member From: Christchurch, New Zealand
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posted 25 September 2005 09:59 PM
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So let me get this right "tuning by telephone" --- do you ring up and say "Hey tune my steel while I go to the bar and get a beer - be back in a minute" ??? |
b0b
Sysop From: Cloverdale, California, USA
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posted 26 September 2005 09:28 AM
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Are we done with this silly topic yet? If you have something more to add, look for it under Humor.------------------
 Bobby Lee
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