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- Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:23 pm
- Forum: Wind, Percussion, and Miscellaneous and Experimental Instruments
- Topic: Stretch tuning needed for marimba?
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Stretch tuning needed for marimba?
I am building my own marimba and I read about an advice that over C#6 bars should be tuned +1 cent per bar. In a way that C#6 +1, D6 +2, D#6 +3 cent. Is this really needed, or not? Does anyone have experience about this?
- Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Wind, Percussion, and Miscellaneous and Experimental Instruments
- Topic: Suitable tuner for marimba bars?
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Suitable tuner for marimba bars?
Hello! I have rough tuned a set of marimba bars a few years ago, and now I have enough time to fine tune them. Back then, I was using my iBook laptop with the build in mic. and a software called Perfect Pitch to tune them, but the tuner gave quite rhapsodic results. This time, for fine tuning, I wou...