Zither tuning

[LeAnn]

Hi, Baoli, and all of you who wrote,

Thanks so much for your information...I have a MacBook Pro, but I soon  
hope to have Windows operating on it, and maybe then I can run the  
Tunelab97 software.  For the moment, I'm just using a little black  
battery-operated Korg tuner, and my ears.  What I really needed was a  
chart about which strings should be tuned to which note, and I got  
that from Annie Grieshop.

My partner and I are experimenting with other tunings for zithers...we  
have acquired several autoharps, taken off the chord mechanisms, and  
tuned them pentatonically.  We may do something similar with this  
German zither. We don't have any recordings yet on our web site with  
the zithers, but they sound wonderful with our crystal singing bowls  
and flutes.

I once experienced a Chinese zither concert (I was living in  
Hiroshima, Japan at the time) and it was such a gorgeous sound.   
Baoli, do your wife and daughter have any CDs?  Where do you live?  At  
the moment, I'm in Bonn, Germany, although I also have a house in Ann  
Arbor, Michigan.

Happy New Year (guten Rutsch) to all!

LeAnn

On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:08 PM, baoli liu wrote:

> Hello LeAnn,
>
> My wife and my daughter are both Chinese Zither
> players and i have the honor to tune for them
> regularly.Since i am a piano tuner,i usually tune
> zithers by ear.i ever tried to use Tunelab97,a
> shareware to tune pianos and the result was
> excellent.it may take you a while to figure out how to
> modify the tuning curve though.
> the software can be used on laptop and desktop as
> well.
> thanks!
> Baoli,
>
> --- LeAnn <leann-guyton at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm new to the list and am not a piano
>> tuner...but I found your
>> list when searching for info about zither tuning.
>>
>> I've just acquired a 38-string concert zither and I
>> need to figure out
>> how to tune it!  Do any of you have a tuning chart?
>> I gather that my
>> zither (a 7/22 Luftresonanz-Zither) would be tuned
>> in the "Viennese"
>> mode?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help...looking forward to
>> learning more,
>>
>> LeAnn
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