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| bob91343:
The guitar is an imperfect instrument but in the hands of a true talent its limitations seem unimportant. Having said that, the way I check mine is without a tuner. I pluck the open string and then lightly touch the halfway point of the string to make it vibrate one octave higher. Listening to that and then pressing down on the 12th fret to see if it's the same pitch will verify the bridge position. The most accurate method is to tune one string against a tuner, then find those spots on other strings as well as the tuned one that match the pitch, without using any frets. In other words, there are harmonics that match each other on each string that are the same pitch. It's even easier on the bass violin where you can bow the strings two at a time with fingers lightly touching appropriate spots on the two strings. Hearing the unison pitches at the same time allows you to hear the beats and reduce them to zero. As a venerable bassist, that's my method of choice. It's faster and more accurate than a tuner. |
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