January 11, 2005 at 1:21 PM

Fun with an elektromos hangoló!

That is, fun with an electronic tuner!

Yesterday I got my first electronic tuner! I spent an hour or so playing with it and my violin, trying out scales while looking at the tuner and paying attention to how my violin sounded and reacted when I hit a note *just right*. I mentioned a long time ago that that Nicolá has the most incredible resonance, so I want to learn how to use them to their best advantage. I think having a tuner will also help me to keep my violin in the tune that I choose, not 20Hz off.

After playing scales and stuff, I had a little extra fun with watching the tuner while listening to some solo violin pieces. I found that in this way I could tell when the violinist used an open string and stuff. I confess that I was amazed at the error tolerance (roughly about 20 Hz) that the violinists had. When I was studying chemistry and physics, I hated myself for a week if I was off with an SI unit by .001 of a unit. Still, on my own violin it's the difference between resonance and flatness...weird!

Ooops! Back to class! Szia!

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