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[carnright]

I love this :-D Using Audacity analysed the pitch of each string. What I found was that the middle string is at 231Hz (A#3) the rightmost string (from viewers POV) is 309Hz (D#4) (Perfect Fourth above the middle string) and the leftmost string (again viewers POV) is 348Hz (F4) (Perfect Fifth above middle string).

[carnright]

I mean I analysed the pitch of each string from Pekko's video "How to play the Jouhikko"

[carnright]

Oh, I got what I said from Pekko's video "How to play the Jouhikko"

Very nearly at the end he goes over the strings and their intervals. The middle string sounds the lowest in pitch. He plucks the two strings farthest from the bowing hand and says "Fourth" then he plucks the two strings closest to his bowing hand and says "Fifth" I took this then that the middle string was the tonic and the other two to be the fourth and fifth above the middle string.

[Strumelia]

Pekko is tuned: melody string- F middle low bass string-A# far drone-D# Translating that down a half step to get rid of the sharps and play in D instead of D#, we'd then get: melody string- E middle low bass string-A far drone-D the far drone is the tonic, D, when he plays Finnish style on the melody string. He also demonstrated Estonian playing on the middle bass string, which is a different scale and key. but mainly he is showing Finnish style tuning and playing. I play in A, tuning BEA.

[Strumelia]

To play the tonic note in a tune, you play the bottom drone string (C) plus the 5th interval as the drone (G). Then to play notes higher than the tonic note you move to playing the top melody string (D and higher) played with the middle G drone again.

[Strumelia]

The middle string is not the tonic note as you are saying. The tonic note (a C in this instance) is on the far (bottom) drone string. Your melody string (top) then plays the second note of the C scale- a D note. the middle string is tuned to a 5th interval of the key, but in the lower octave, in this case the 5th in the scale of C is a G, so your middle drone is a low G.

[Max0Inq]

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