Tuning Up To The Fan

[JasmineTea]

Do you tune your guitar to the fan in the summer?

• Other apliances you tune up to?

[digitalsnipe]

What time of the day did you say you switched from coffee to wine? Might want to consider a minor adjustment to that schedule. Or, perhaps I should adapt to yours.

No. I have yet to experience an appliance that complements my style. But now that you have brought the subject to this forum I sit in eager anticipation...

[JasmineTea]

Hey, I heard about it from Chet Atkins.

[digitalsnipe]

Wonder what Ol' Chet was up to when he put that idea into circulation. Pun intended.

I suppose even the best have their moments, perhaps hours, of sheer boredom to make better use of. That's the time imagination is the mother of invention.

Like Chet Atkins music? Never heard his music. But, that's not unusal. About the only music I do listen to is written by people on this and other sites like it.

[JasmineTea]

If you have a multi speed fan it enables you to change keys.

[Cldplytkmn]

the dial-tone on your phone is an A is it not?


i tried to tune to my fan, but i got dizzy

[JasmineTea]

Here's a good one: Airplane flying over the house. You can play desending chords/scales.

[Paul J. Edwards]

Originally posted by JasmineTea
Do you tune your guitar to the fan in the summer?

I have often thought of doing something like that but never really bothered.

You would have a drone to work off of.

Have you ever listened to birds in your yard, mocking birds are good ones. and tried to imitate the rhythm they set up?

Look everywhere for inspiration.

[JasmineTea]

Originally posted by Paul J. Edwards Have you ever listened to birds in your yard, mocking birds are good ones. and tried to imitate the rhythm they set up? Look everywhere for inspiration.

I never noticed a rythm in birds singing..hmm..No mocking birds around here, Wisconsin. However, I just found out there is a Peragrin Falcon home about a block from my house.

[Paul J. Edwards]

Originally posted by JasmineTea I never noticed a rythm in birds singing..hmm..No mocking birds around here, Wisconsin. However, I just found out there is a Peragrin Falcon home about a block from my house.

Oh sure. They call to each other....

de de de..... de de...... de de de.... de de....de ..de....de de de... de de .

[seven7]

Originally posted by Cldplytkmn the dial-tone on your phone is an A is it not?

 

 

actually, i think it's F#

[Paul J. Edwards]

Originally posted by seven7 actually, i think it's F#

 

Now here is where Perfect Pitch would come in handy!

[rgordonrn]

I have a battery-operated appliance in my house. A guitar tuner.

[JasmineTea]

Here's another good one: The garbage truck. It changes rpms everytime it starts/stops in front of a different house on the street. Plus you get some percussion when he throws a bag in the hopper, and usualy they have squeeky brakes.

[JasmineTea]

Here's a tip for multi speed fan users:

[Tralfaz]

In the summertime (when the weather is hot), I've tried sitting out on the patio and tuning up my guitar to the drone of the cicadas, but I really couldn't find the pitch they buzzing at. Anyway, it gets too hot after awhile, and three or four cicadas in a tree can drown out the dreadiest of dreadnoughts.

[JasmineTea]

How about one of those old exersize machines, the one where you put the strap around your ass and stand there while it shakes the pounds off. You could play guitar along with it AND lose a few pounds... It's probly multi-speed.

[Paul J. Edwards]

Originally posted by Tralfaz In the summertime (when the weather is hot), I've tried sitting out on the patio and tuning up my guitar to the drone of the cicadas, but I really couldn't find the pitch they buzzing at. Anyway, it gets too hot after awhile, and three or four cicadas in a tree can drown out the dreadiest of dreadnoughts.

 

 

You need a resonator.

 

That will put those bugs in their place!

[opranks612]

Originally posted by Paul J. Edwards Have you ever listened to birds in your yard, mocking birds are good ones. and tried to imitate the rhythm they set up? Look everywhere for inspiration.

 

 

I know a dobro player who'd practice by doing bird calls with his dobro.

[tamolina]

Anybody who has any interest at all in fingerpicking should listen to Chet Atkins and/or Maybelle Carter just to hear what it sounds like when a master does it.

[jimtlin]

Interesting post ... I was a factory piano tuner for Fender Rhodes 1977 - 1980. We worked in tuning booths which were lighted by fluorescent lights. The Rhodes piano is builty with 73 or 88 single coil pickups (one for each key). The pianos pickups would "buzz" nicely due to the lighting. As I recall, 60 cycle hum is close to Bb --close but not quite. Made the job a little more challenging ... I was always tempting to tune one using that 60 cycle hum as an "A" ... never did though ... customers might not have appreciated my dilema.

[Sparkytfl]

I just checked my phone and the tone is about halfway between the A and F#. Closer to the A.