"Do you tune guitars, too?"

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 02:06 PM 2/23/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>>My "favorite" however is when a music education prof got someone 
>>with a master key to deposit three autoharps in my room.  One was 
>>almost OK, but the other two each had some strings which were wound 
>>the wrong way on the tuning pins. I left them that way. ;-}
>
>Autoharps can sound terrific in meantone (1/4 comma, or 1/6 comma, 
>or anything in between).  Since they're playing only a limited batch 
>of chords anyway, some of those enharmonics really don't need to be 
>there at all since they're not played.  Pure tritones (1/6 C) or 
>major thirds (1/4 C) make the little beast sound so much stronger!
>
>
>Brad Lehman


Yeah, that would be fun, but the statute of limitations (and 
warranty) on the tuning of these beasties actually runs out before 
they get back to the music office.

Any resemblance to the tuning i may have attempted is purely coincidental.




Conrad Hoffsommer

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