{"id":5,"date":"2008-04-02T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/2008\/04\/02\/tuning-a-stringed-instrument\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T14:50:59","slug":"tuning-a-stringed-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/2008\/04\/02\/tuning-a-stringed-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning a Stringed Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using a Tuner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tuners are a great aid in determining whether or not your string is in tune.\u00a0 It is important however to learn what the tuner actually does before you try to correct the string.\u00a0 If you tighten it too much (which doesn&#8217;t take much) you will break the string.\u00a0 (strings are becoming more and more costly)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuning by ear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those who have developed the skill can tune their A string to another source (piano, pitch pipe, tuner, oboe player in orchestra) and proceed to tune the rest of the strings by ear using the intervals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Weather problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stringed instrument face a special problem when the weather changes.\u00a0 During the winter months the wood contracts making the peg holes bigger and the strings loosen.\u00a0 When the weather gets very warm the wood expands and the pegs become more difficult to turn.\u00a0 In either case if you are not confident that you can tune your instrument without damaging it or the strings you should take it to your teacher for tuning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a Tuner \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tuners are a great aid in determining whether or not your string is in tune.\u00a0 It is important however to learn what the tuner actually does before you try to correct the string.\u00a0 If you tighten it too much (which doesn&#8217;t take much) you will break the string.\u00a0 (strings are becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/hardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}