Yay, I bought tuning forks!
Since the flute is an instrument where its pitch changes depending on your embouchure (shape of your lips), angle, and whatnot, I decided to buy a tuning fork to help me maintain the correct pitch.
Nifty little things, I tell ya C:
Since the flute is an instrument where its pitch changes depending on your embouchure (shape of your lips), angle, and whatnot, I decided to buy a tuning fork to help me maintain the correct pitch.
Nifty little things, I tell ya C:
I found one selling them at an unusually cheap price. One thing I learned about music is that musical apparatus never comes in cheap, so when when I asked my mom on which note to buy, she said:
Shiiiiii**! Buy them both you foolish child!
Nah, I'm just kidding. She actually said it in a much harsher manner. (no seriously I'm joking :P)
So that's how I bought these C and A tuning forks...
...with my own money
...which she didn't exchange in the end ._.
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...with my own money
...which she didn't exchange in the end ._.
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Should've seen that comingAnywho~, I found this neat trick. You know how normally, a tuning fork can only be heard if you hold it close to your ear, right? Well try this if you happen to have one at home. Tap it, and press the bottom tip on something hard. No, not that, I meant something solid, like the floor or a table!
I dunno how this works exactly, but somehow the table resonates with the fork at the same frequency and now the entire table acts like this giant tuning fork for everyone to hear. Try it!
Shi* gonna BLO. YO. MIND!
Not really. I showed it to mum, she wasn't that impressed :I
(apparently she figured it out when she was a music student. I bet it blew her mind too back then)
Like so~
Yes, that is my hand.
Shi* gonna BLO. YO. MIND!
Not really. I showed it to mum, she wasn't that impressed :I
(apparently she figured it out when she was a music student. I bet it blew her mind too back then)
Honestly, you really only needed the A, and most people use electric tuners. However, you can't rely completely on these tuning devices, because, especially in larger ensembles, you have to be in tune with everybody else, for example, the organ at one of my churches is very old, and thus very flat, so I have to pull out my trumpet's tuning slide so much to match all the organ, and then, I still have to adjust certain tuning slides WHILE I'm playing. It also helps is you already know what pitch your going to play in relation to the one you're playing right now.
ReplyDeleteOh, and be careful with those tuning forks, they can be hazardous...(http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31838-duck-tales)<<<Watch and you'll understand.
Actually, I thought of buying just the A one too, but I remembered I tend to "translate" pieces to the C scale to avoid high notes or overly complicated fingering.
ReplyDelete...and since I rarely find tuning forks on sale, I thought: Why not?
The correct word is "transpose". :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting, most flutists I know try to avoid playing LOW notes. As for complicated fingerings, the G-Major fingerings aren't all that complicated, and it's also in the lower region.