Re: [tuning] fantasy grand

on 1/23/01 4:07 PM, tuning@egroups.com at tuning@egroups.com wrote:

> [Ed Foote wrote:]
>> I think a more plausible approach would be to mimic the pedal steel
>> guitar (the king of all musical instruments!).
>
> Wow!! Coming from someone who is intimately familiar with, and clearly
> loves, grand pianos, this is a powerful statement! Where can I learn
> more about these?

I'm starting to picture a Parsons/White B-Bender sort of contraption. Lean
forward on the bench, sharpens the B, lean back, flats the C, jam your right
elbow on the logo, sharpen the G, jam your left elbow below the bottom key
for a flattened Eb... and so on...

Another possibility. I have a full set of Keith banjo tuners on one of my
guitars, a zillion or so of those on the keyboard, yow!

Seriously though, this has me thinking about a recent Klein guitar I saw on
the web, with an auto tuning function, wouldn't be ridiculous to program
this to work with microtunings. Hmmmm. Now, we just need to come up with the
$10,000 that one of Steve Kleins' instruments start at.

Dream, indeed.

Seth

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Seth Austen wrote:

> Seriously though, this has me thinking about a recent Klein guitar I saw on
> the web, with an auto tuning function, wouldn't be ridiculous to program
> this to work with microtunings. Hmmmm. Now, we just need to come up with the
> $10,000 that one of Steve Kleins' instruments start at.
>
> Dream, indeed.

And then there's that computerised tuning system Jimmy Page has.
I don't know the url, but I'm sure it costs a fortune.
He uses it for 12tet open tunings.

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David Beardsley wrote:
> And then there's that computerised tuning system Jimmy Page has.
> I don't know the url, but I'm sure it costs a fortune.
> He uses it for 12tet open tunings.

Wow... I'm a huge Jimmy Page fan and I never knew this:
http://www.selftuning.com/index2.htm

Looks like the retuning mechanism is far to slow for real-time adaptive
tuning applications, however, which I believe was the start of this thread.
Still, maybe more advances in this direction would lead to a similar product
for pianos, and possibly a solution in the far future.

Todd

Todd Wilcox wrote:
>
> David Beardsley wrote:
> > And then there's that computerised tuning system Jimmy Page has.
> > I don't know the url, but I'm sure it costs a fortune.
> > He uses it for 12tet open tunings.
>
> Wow... I'm a huge Jimmy Page fan and I never knew this:
> http://www.selftuning.com/index2.htm

Thats it.

> Looks like the retuning mechanism is far to slow for real-time adaptive
> tuning applications, however, which I believe was the start of this thread.
> Still, maybe more advances in this direction would lead to a similar product
> for pianos, and possibly a solution in the far future.

Put it on a JI guitar with straight frets and the fun begins....

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