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Lesson 4: Tuning Game (G-C)
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So now, I've got the A's, the E's, and the D's.
This D here is gonna give me this G.
That G oh, a little sharp over here.
Now, this would be called tuning by relative pitch.
Top on a little low.
Now, your instrument went up going up 4 and over or 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Your instrument may be set up differently than this one.
In this particular building style, the tuning pins for the bass bridge are all on the right side of the instrument, which is to the right of the bridge it's on.
And the tuning pins for the treble bridge are on the left side of the instrument, which is the side the bridge is on.
Not all builders build that way.
Some put all their tuning pins on one side and different size instruments will be done differently.
If you have an additional, bridge let up here or super bass bridge over here, Those pins are also gonna be inserted somewhere on the instrument.
So it's important to pay attention to how your instrument's laid out when you're tuning it, so that you don't accidentally That one sounds good.
We're cross.
Remember?
Left of the treble over here.
It's good to know that, so that you can get on the correct string when you're trying to find it.
Now, I've got all my Gs tuned.
This G up here is going to give me this C.
That C is going to let me get this.
Now, let me show you what happens.
The strings don't match.
Can you hear that?
I'm gonna play it.
They're getting closer.
Right?
Now, can you hear that beating?
There's a little beating.
And when that beating goes away is when they're in tune.
It has to do with the sound waves and when you have 2 pitches that are close to each other but they're, we kind of hear things zoom zoom zoom zoom.
And when you have 2 that are in unison they sound good together.
When they're slightly different the one's going up and the other one's going down.
And we hear the peaks of that, and that's that wah wah wah wah wah.
It's kind of a beating, is what they call it, going back and forth.
And when the beating goes away is when it's in tune.
So, I've got that C, that c.
That gives me that c.
Up 4 and over.
Now, the beauty of this is that c gives me that f.
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 Gs and Cs.
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