As an extreme alternative, one could have surgery to help this situation. Recently I read about a guy who loved his work so much that he had a USB drive implanted to his hand after an accident http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=3669
There are so many possibilities for tuners..... Practical. Freaky. Smart. Delusional. Funny. Stupid. On Jul 8, 7:02 am, Robin Gravina <robin.grav...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't like the tuna on, but if the tuning goes off during the gig, then a > quick check is a good thing, but I don't really want to know if one of the > strings goes a little off - just if it bothers me. I was desperate for > monitors until recently, when the house sound was good and we finally had a > monitor - the mando sounded like a bag of tools being dumped on the floor > and I couldn't hear the bass strings of the guitar enough to play happily, > although apparently all was well on the audience side. I think a lot of this > stuff comes from using electric rules for acoustic music, as the superb post > about doing sound said a while ago. > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Topher Gayle <surfns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ideally, I like to have the tuner close to hand, but not on the headstock. > > But if there isn't anywhere good to put it, I'll leave it on. This isn't for > > prettiness. The things rattle. Now there are places where it's so noisy > > you'll never hear the rattle. For examples: > > > The pizza place. It can be so noisy there that without monitors I can't > > hear myself, much less the fiddle player standing 6 feet away. > > > Likewise at many contra dances, when the dancers are stomping (after the > > beat, usually, thanks to the speed of sound) and the caller is calling, and > > we're playing in a really echoic gym, monitors are the difference between > > playing and not playing. > > > When the sound is perfect and the audience attentive, yes I really want the > > tuner off, if possible. That's not usual, for me. > > > Topher > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <mandoho...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> There was a time when I could tune all my instruments by ear, just pull an > >> A out of the air and tune to that. Well, 4 years of riding in helicopters > >> with no doors, 6 years as a Blacksmith and twenty years operating heavy > >> equipment I don't hear the overtones anymore, I need my tuner, on the > >> headstock, all the time, it's the lesser of two evils. > > >> Clyde Clevenger > >> Just My Opinion, But It's Right > >> Salem, Oregon > >> Old Circle <http://www.myspace.com/oldcircle> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Mike Hedding" <michaelhedd...@gmail.com> > >> To: "Taterbugmando" <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 10:02:05 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > >> Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? > > >> As I was recently seen in a compromising photo on the front page of a > >> Wisconsin paper with my tuner on my headstock I feel the need to come > >> out and say what's the big deal? > > >> For me it's not ideal I'll give you that but it's the lesser of two > >> evils, to me it looks even more silly to be reaching in to my pocket > >> and fiddling around after and many times during the middle of the > >> songs. Granted, maybe I need to lighten my touch a little on the > >> strings but hey I just want to be noticed I guess. > > >> Hopefully I'll just be able to tune by ear someday and everyone will > >> be better off. > > >> Mike- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
