Hi Paul, I would tune the A string and then *afterwards* check. As I was teaching professionally I did it *a lot*. It is almost a parlor trick to learn to do this. The other strings on a violin *are* tuned to the A. And of course just as in a piano impedance of the instrument makes a difference. It is sometimes a very noticeable one in fact a German factory fiddle compared to a French factory fiddle in one case it was really impossible to have perfect fifths on both and have the 2 intruments *intune* on the G string. At 07:32 AM 12/14/99 -0800, you wrote: >Don wrote: > > >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> When I was a freelance fiddle player I would routinely tune my violin >> within 2 cents of A440 without referrence to a pitch source. I was not >> particularly exceptional in this regard--nor do I have *perfect pitch*. >> >Don, > >I'm sure it was very close, but how do you know that it was within two >cents if you didn't use a reference? More important, I'm sure you never >tuned each of the four strings individually without reference to the >others. > >Paul > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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