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Lesson 2: Tuning Game (E)
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But it's also part of the map of the dulcimer.
It helps you figure out the layout, and that's what I call the tuning game.
Because from this pitch fork, which is just one pitch, the a in one octave, I've been able to hear and tune all my a's.
Now, the beauty of that is once I have this a, that gives me the e on the other side of the treble bridge.
And that e will give me this e that again is 1 over.
It's on a marked course, cross over and go up to 1 above the mark.
It's the exact same pitch.
So then I follow over here and make sure I'm on the right one.
Now, the other thing, some people think this is like watching paint dry.
This, I'm 1 above a mark.
I'm gonna go over and go up 1 below a mark.
Oh, I already have my wrench over here.
It's also better generally to tune up to a pitch, because the strings always trying to return to its original pitch when it was not tightened.
Now I'm here, one above a mark, but I go 1, 2, 3, 4 and over or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to get the the the octave.
And that one will give me, go across, one above a mark to cross over.
And to 2, to 1 below.
This would be a marked course, 1, 2, 3, 4.
It doesn't have a white marker there but it would be a marked course.
Those do pretty good.
1, 2, 3, 4, and over.
Or, do, re, mi, fa, sol, a, ti, do.
Oh, that one is a little low.
Now, your ear may not be as finely tuned yet because you haven't done this as often as I have.
So, don't worry if you don't quite see it.
I'm gonna have another method of doing this in just a moment.
But this tuning game is really helpful because now I'm starting to think, oh, when I'm thinking 'a', there's like a map in my brain of where all the 'a's can be, and there's a map where all the 'e's can be.
One more.
We need the low one here.
Yep.
There we go.
All the way across, which is another way to think about it.
If I'm on the marked side of the left side of the treble bridge, when I come over to the bass, I'm gonna be 1 above a mark, those are gonna be octaves.
So now, I've tuned all my e's and as I do this, you can see what happens with the sympathetic vibration.
If I play this e here and stop it, you can still hear it ringing and that's because all these other e's are ringing in sympathy to that one.
So, this one a gave me all the a's and it gave me all the e's.
Now, here's the beauty of it.
On the other side of this a, is a d.
Steve describes and demonstrates a non-linear tuning game he developed to help him both tune and learn where identical and related notes are on the hammered dulcimer by tuning all the Es.
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