<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>LeAnn,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am strictly an aural tuner, but there is an electronic tuner that may work for you.  It is the Korg LCA 120 and it is available in the States for $90 U.S.  I have never tried it, but it is said to work pretty well.  There are those on this list who know way more than I about electronic tuners, however I believe that the limited range of 38-notes that are neither very high nor low do not present too much of a challenge for the less expensive tuning devices.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>By the way, I loved the wooden flute sound I heard on your website.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gary Fluke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Snohomish, WA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=leann-guyton@t-online.de href="mailto:leann-guyton@t-online.de">LeAnn</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:44 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Zither tuning</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>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?</DIV> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Thanks very much for your help...looking forward to learning more,</DIV> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>LeAnn</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.wavegarden.net/">www.wavegarden.net</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></DIV><BR><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 14px Skia; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 14px Skia; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">"What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcialable with our vocation to become fully human?"  </SPAN><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">Paulo Freire</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">LeAnn</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">Ubierstraße 43</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">D-53173 Bonn</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">+49(0)228.956.2226</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Papyrus color=#008080 size=3><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(0,128,128); FONT-FAMILY: Papyrus">+49(0)160.157.2885</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>