Video: Fine Tuning a Fiddle to a Quartz Tuner

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Learn how to fine tune a fiddle to a quartz tuner with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.

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Hi I'm David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. In this segment I'm going to discuss fine tuning a violin to a quartz tuner. Quartz tuners have become standard equipment for a lot of performing musicians as well as students, and they are really useful. I'm not able to talk concisely about why they work, but I can tell you that they do. And these automatic tuners simply respond to sounds, like it is now responding to my voice. And if I play a note, it assesses the note's pitch—a red light flashes on this one—a red light flashes for either flat or sharp. A green light flashes if it is in tune, and this cute little needle, which may not be really visible on a video, gives me a visual representation of how far from being in tune my note is. If I play a A...because of the vagaries of my playing, and to some degree the vagaries of vibrating strings and instruments, the tuner may indicate that my pitch is changing. When that happens, I tend to just try to get the string to be in tune most of the time. I'm going to go through this strings really quickly, starting with the A... close enough. The D... sharp... close enough... and now the G...quite flat. Looks good... the E...sharp. Good enough for the moment. Now because the strings are stretching and the bridge is probably moving, all of the strings need retuning. Here is the A again.

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Fine Tuning a Fiddle to a Quartz Tuner

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