@MucusFelidae - Yup. But an electronic tuner won't help develop your ears. And when you accidentally smash your electronic tuner on the fancy tile floor of the place where you have a gig, it's nice to whip a tuning fork out of the crud at the bottom of your case and still be able to tune everything up nicely.
@Mauriz9shredd - same pitch, but a loud pizz may have some distortion, and will decay quickly; hard for the ear to accurately hear and assess whether it needs adjusting. Best pizz tuning solution is repeated quiet pizzicatos, like a mandolin, you can tune quite well with that. -Generally if your pizz is hard enough to break the string, it will make an ugly sound. If the sound is resonant, you are probably safe from breakage. If you break one or two, you'll discover where the limit is!!
@dpapaioannow - I used to play with baroque/early music musicians who used 430 for classical music. You have to get a tuning fork tuned to that pitch in order to tune. Baroque performance is usually tuned to A415. It take a while to develop a switch in your head to "hear" 430 as A and play in tune - for a couple of hours, and then go to another rehearsal and switch again to either 415 or back up to 440-442 for modern. The first few months are a challenge!
Thanks :)
TheMaux79 1 week ago
I have seen violin players using an electronic tuner. Fast and clean and precise. Tuning forks are outdated stuff from ancient times.
MucusFelidae 2 weeks ago
@MucusFelidae - Yup. But an electronic tuner won't help develop your ears. And when you accidentally smash your electronic tuner on the fancy tile floor of the place where you have a gig, it's nice to whip a tuning fork out of the crud at the bottom of your case and still be able to tune everything up nicely.
AllysonsViolinStudio 2 weeks ago 2
Thank you so much for your videos. They are very helpful. Could you also make a video for Bouree (Bach) from Suzuki 3????
natyaya4 3 months ago
this was a really great help :) thank you so much
stupidity006 3 months ago
@Mauriz9shredd - same pitch, but a loud pizz may have some distortion, and will decay quickly; hard for the ear to accurately hear and assess whether it needs adjusting. Best pizz tuning solution is repeated quiet pizzicatos, like a mandolin, you can tune quite well with that. -Generally if your pizz is hard enough to break the string, it will make an ugly sound. If the sound is resonant, you are probably safe from breakage. If you break one or two, you'll discover where the limit is!!
AllysonsViolinStudio 4 months ago
have you ever tried A 432?
dpapaioannow 4 months ago
@dpapaioannow - I used to play with baroque/early music musicians who used 430 for classical music. You have to get a tuning fork tuned to that pitch in order to tune. Baroque performance is usually tuned to A415. It take a while to develop a switch in your head to "hear" 430 as A and play in tune - for a couple of hours, and then go to another rehearsal and switch again to either 415 or back up to 440-442 for modern. The first few months are a challenge!
AllysonsViolinStudio 4 months ago
I'm so bad at tuning my violin... thank you very much.
eadbhard018 4 months ago
thx :)
LovinOrigin 5 months ago