Intonation help

  • Thread starter Thread starter googlydog
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ok, ok, muttley... I read it again and had to realize, it's actually not much that is said, and the bit that is said is of course true. but it's so damn sexed up that I got distracted by the fillers.

Nevertheless, I'm still convinced of three things that do not contradict this article:

1st - Tuning your guitar by using open strings and tuner you can pretty much do without the knowledge of tempered and non-tempered intervalls and the tuning method mentioned. You'll stay in the tempered world.

2nd - If you don't have a tuner, you can use the beginner-method (which doesn't rely on harmonics) and you won't leave the tempered world either.

3rd - The whole knowledge about tempered and non-tempered intervalls, scales or instruments doesn't solve the OP's problem, which is very obviously a wrongly set up or - worse - built instrument.

Read http://hubpages.com/hub/Equal-Temperament-Guitar-Tuning under "Testing your instrument":
"[...] but if every stopped string is equally sharp (or flat), you may indeed have an ill-made instrument. [...]"
 
six said:
... So the same C# would once sound flat and once sharp just because it's played once in an Amaj and once in an Bmin... yeah, sure...
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The same note certainly can sound sharp in one chord and flat in another. It's a different context.
 
ggunn said:
The same note certainly can sound sharp in one chord and flat in another. It's a different context.
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apart from the fact that I clearly misread the part I was referring to (it doesn't even say this), it's a bit of a relative question but I still say this can't be the case with a guitar tuned to equal temperament. and I repeat: it wasn't mentioned like this in the article.

Actually we have to be more precise: it can SOUND once sharp and once flat, but it can't BE. If it sounds once sharp and once flat in the mentioned chords, it has to be due to the other strings that ARE flat or sharp. But due to the way a guitar is built, in this case it would either sound flat in both cases or sharp in both cases.

Anyway. You've kind of stated the obvious. But not having a different context with every other chord is basically the point of the equal temperament.
 
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