Relative tuning is very similar to the technique we discussed last week to tune your guitar. An added trick is to use the pedals on the piano so the note is able to sound freely, this frees up both of your hands to tune your violin. Try to remember to use the fine tuners when you get each pitch to within half a tone. Find the corresponding keys on the piano, using “Middle C” as a reference point, and match each string to the correct note. The notes each of your violin strings should produce are A, D, G, and E, in that order. The easiest way to tune your violin by ear is to use a piano or keyboard. Okay, let’s get to the different ways you can tune your violin at home. Sometimes new strings can stretch while you play, and need to be tightened from the peg a few times per practice for the first few days. Keep in mind that you might have to stop to tune in the middle of practicing, especially if your strings are new. Listen carefully to the sound of the string as it tightens towards the correct pitch. Next, as you tune you should play the note continuously with your bow. This will keep the string from becoming too tight. If any of your fine tuners gets wound down to the end of the screw, simply loosen the fine tuner all the way to the end of the screw before very carefully tightening the corresponding peg. Secondly, when you are tuning your violin you should try to rely most heavily on the fine tuners if you have them. Tuning from below, up, will help you to become more familiar with the sound of a perfectly in tune string. This is a good practice to get into because it helps prevent string breaks and creates a system for you to follow and build good habits. First, just like with the guitar, it is best to tune from below the desired pitch, and bring it up to correct. Now, before we really get started, there are a few things to go over. Remember to only move the pegs a few millimeters at a time! When it comes to tuning violin strings, you’ll be surprised how far just a little turn can go! If you are a beginner at tuning your own violin it is usually recommended that you do not use the pegs to tune unless it is absolutely required so you can avoid unnecessary strings breaks. If the string is more than half a tone off pitch then the pegs are used to bring it close, and the fine tuners are used to, well, fine tune the string until it is the exact correct pitch. As you can probably guess from their name, fine tuners are convenient little devices used to tune strings that are only slightly off pitch, usually by no more than a half tone or so. If it turns out that your violin is one that was produced with only a single fine tuner, you have the ability to have the other three installed into the tailpiece by a luthier, which is someone who makes stringed instruments like violins. Fine tuners are sometimes found only on the E string, while some other violins have them on all four this is something to watch for on your own. Like the guitar, the strings of the violin are tightened or loosened to produce the proper pitch using the pegs and fine tuners. The violin is tuned in perfect fifths, which means that each string is tuned to an exact interval of a perfect fifth from the strings on either side of it. Specifically, we’re going to go over three different ways you can tune your own violin. Last week we kicked things off with “ 6 Simple Steps to Tune Your Guitar” and this week we’re going to take a look at another stringed instrument, albeit one rather different than the guitar: the violin. While it is true that most of the subjects we discuss here on this blog are more mental in nature, this week we’re going to continue the more practical theme we started last week: tuning your instrument.
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