Nothing frozen or boiling here, and there's no humidity problem to speak of. I appreciate your posting.Ĭharlie and Bryan, the weather here in Perth is a very mild temperate clime. Equal tempered instruments are cheaper to build, repair, and adjust and can be played in all 12 keys at the drop of a hat. What equal temperment gives us is economy and practicality. Most of my customers find that a properly adjusted and tuned guitar in equal temperment sounds good enough, especially when you consider that most if not all people listening to you can't hear the slight dissonance in equal temperment. It's also more expensive and more involved to tune. It does make the chords harmonize better but if the other instruments are not tempered this way you may sound noticably out of tune with each other. I'm most familiar with the Buzz Feiten Tuning System which I install every now and again. If you try to make an open E chord sound right you'll flat the G string (G# is the third to E) but then your G chord is no good. The interval from G to B is a third so if you tune the two strings together by ear you'll flat the B to make that two note chord harmonize the best which will make a G chord sound good but a C chord will sound terrible because the C note on the B string will be flat out of tune. Among other things, to make the half steps all be equally spaced, the thirds are stretched a bit sharp out of tune. Then compare the B on the 4th fret of the G string to the open B string and you should find that the open B is flat to the B note on the G string. Then play the G and B strings together and fiddle with the B string tuning until you think that two note chord harmonizes the best. If you're tuning by ear make sure you're tuning in a general way, not trying to make any one chord sound in tune. With fresh strings on the guitar tune it to your tuner, if you have one, making sure it's set on equal temperment if there's a choice. Then try this the next time you change strings. If you own more than one guitar select the one you believe has been adjusted the best for action and intonation. Lee-I can't explain what these so called sweetened tunings do from a technical perspective but I think I can help you understand the problem they're all trying to help with. Has anyone else found this happening to them, and could any forum folk with knowledge of these things help out with some wisdom? It's fascinating, and an explanation would be great. Somehow the warmer weather and the effects this has on the guitar, has made some critical differences to the efficacy of the sweetened tuning option. How wierd is that?! It's like night and day, and I'm totally clear on it. Now though, with summer here again, I have found once again that the regular tuning is not as nice and am already tuning with the sweetener ALL the time, as it once again sounds wonderful. I certainly didn't think of the weather or temperature having anything to do with it at the time, I stopped using the sweetener and put it in the too wierd file and just used regular tuning. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why this was so bad now, when it was so cool initially. Now, I've got a very good ear, and was perplexed as to the change in what my ear was telling me about the sweetened tuning option. However, I noticed as time went by that the sweetened tuning started sounding less and less attractive. The 'Acoustic sweetened' tuning was wonderful and really made a difference with my Martin great results and very, very pleasing all over the neck. I first got the Peterson just under a year ago when, just like it is now, it was the beginning of summer here in Australia. I have found an unusual thing happening with my 2004 D18V, with reference to the 'sweetened' acoustic tuning on my stroboflip. I just wanted to post this here and see what you folks might think of this.
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