| >Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes? Officially, it's only on paper. It kind of makes the key signatures come out more sensible because you don't want to have a signature where there are both sharps & flats in one key. >electronic tuners are often used to set an initial temperament on a reference rank >tune other ranks to the reference rank, listening to the differential waves created by the two ranks to discern in/out-of-tuneness. The equivalent on guitar is to use the tuner for reference on the high E string only, then tune the low E to match perfectly by ear. You're going to be hearing a lot of these two, and they better be able to make you happy to begin with. Then tune the middle 4 strings according to what the hands will be doing in relation to the reference strings, as well as who you will be playing with and how they are tuned. Without an electronic tuner a single tuning fork is enough for this, and it's actually better than having a set of 6 forks at the nominal even tempered frequencies. E=329.6 is the fork you want so you don't have to fret the high string to match an A=440 fork. |