Rllink
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All the tuner talk, anybody just pick up their uke, check the tuning off of one of their strings, and then go for it? I've found myself doing that more and more when I'm in the privacy of my own home or if I know that I won't be playing with anyone else. I started doing it because I met a guy recently who plays the ukulele and he doesn't have a tuner of any kind. Tuning to a specific frequency is not something he is even concerned with. He checks his A string by ear, if it sounds good to him, he tunes off of it. If he doesn't like the sound of his A string, he adjusts it until it does sound good to him and then goes from there.
If we are playing together, we tune to each other. He has a couple friends that join us once in a while and they are the same. We all tune to someone's A string. If I happen to whip out my tuner, they wait for me to tune, and then they tune off of mine, because none of them have a tuner of their own. Nor a tuning fork or a pitch pipe, or a phone app. They actually are humoring me.
I was just wondering if that is something other people do? I'm finding that tuning is just sort of relative. I mean, do you really have to be at 440 MHz? Evidently not, because these guys are really good and I've been learning a lot from them, and they are tuning wherever they feel like. This is not the first time I've done this, but it is the first time I've done it consistently. Anyway, I've found it to be quite liberating to not be dictated to by a tuner. Just to play what sounds good. I don't know. I'm throwing it out for discussion. Maybe I'm just being goofy.
If we are playing together, we tune to each other. He has a couple friends that join us once in a while and they are the same. We all tune to someone's A string. If I happen to whip out my tuner, they wait for me to tune, and then they tune off of mine, because none of them have a tuner of their own. Nor a tuning fork or a pitch pipe, or a phone app. They actually are humoring me.
I was just wondering if that is something other people do? I'm finding that tuning is just sort of relative. I mean, do you really have to be at 440 MHz? Evidently not, because these guys are really good and I've been learning a lot from them, and they are tuning wherever they feel like. This is not the first time I've done this, but it is the first time I've done it consistently. Anyway, I've found it to be quite liberating to not be dictated to by a tuner. Just to play what sounds good. I don't know. I'm throwing it out for discussion. Maybe I'm just being goofy.