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- From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Harmonics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.220929.2623@trl.oz.au>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:09:29 GMT
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- |>
- |> >Oh yeah you can! Here's the harmonics that should be the same on the G and
- |> >B strings: 4th fret G 5th fret B (and 7th fret E), they're all Es.
- |> >Much easier to hear on an electric, but I even tune my acoustic this way.
- |>
- |> NO NO NO! The 4th fret harmonic (and the 9th fret harmonic) should NOT be
- |> used to tune your guitar! The 4th and 9th fret harmonics actually have the
- |> same frequency, and this frequency is one-fifth the frequency of the open
- |> string. THIS IS NOT A NOTE! On the G string, it's _close_ to B, but
- |> slightly below it. The G string is 784 Hz, B is 988 Hz, and that harmonic
- |> is (or at least sounds like it is) 980 Hz. So if you use this harmonic to
- |> tune your guitar, you'll be 9 Hz off.
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- How exactly does one tune a guitar using harmonics?
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