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- From: phlegm@cs1.bradley.edu (Kevin Bourrillion)
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- Subject: Re: Harmonics
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:00:48 GMT
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- Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick@lbl.gov> writes:
-
- >>slightly off from each other. The problem, of course, is that you can't
- >>match a harmonic on your G string to one on your B string, so I do a 7th
- >>fret harmonic on the G string and then I pluck the 10th fret on the high E
-
- Wait a minute...
- I've been tuning the 4th-fret harmonic on the G to the 5th-fret
- harmonic on the B for years!
-
- >I guess I gotta get into this too. According to what I've read, tuning
- >by harmonics, although easier because you can hear the beats, is
- >inaccurate. I may be on shaky ground here, but as I remember, the reason
- >has something to do with tempered tuning; ie the harmonics are always
- >slightly off from the fretted notes (except at fret 12?). If you
- >concentrate, though, you can hear the beats from an out-of-tune 4th (or
- >3rd) interval, so that if you work at it, you can tune the guitar playing
- >only the open strings. Most accurate way is using a tuner, though.
-
- As long as your intonation is set right (which can be easily, if not
- extremely accurately, done on a tuner), all harmonics ought to be
- accurate. At least I've never heard of anything like what you just
- said before.
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