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- From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Harmonics
- Message-ID: <basinski-260193141550@lully.biosci.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:06:28 GMT
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- In article <28647@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, sjwyrick@lbl.gov (Steve Wyrick) wrote:
- > 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?).
-
- Yep. In equal temperament, the pure 5th (that you get when you hit the
- harmonic at the 7th fret) is a few cents (100ths of an octave) off
- compared to the tempered 5th (the kind you want to get so that all your
- half steps are equal, and you can be in tune in every key). It's best
- to tune by octaves.
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