Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: Tuning From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   Tuning Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 165.21.154.x posted: 2/9/2007 at 9:21:11 AM ET How to do you tell if a (woodwind) instrument is in tune or off-tune? And how to do one tell if one is sharp or flat? Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 24.238.154.x posted: 2/9/2007 at 8:37:17 PM ET Even though I've only played flute for about only 1 year;#2 I think is..................... dun noh! maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 2/9/2007 at 10:45:06 PM ET When an instrument (any instrument) is out of tune the tuning constant (piano, keyboard, tuba, synthesizer) there will be vibrations created because the sound waves do not match up. Some refer to these vibrations as "beats" or "waves". What is important is not if you know you are sharp or flat, but the fact you hear the "out of tuneness". Move your tuning mechanism. If the beats get faster, you moved the wrong way. Go the other way. If the beats get slower, you are moving the correct direction. Keep moving until the beats are no longer there. You are in tune. Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 165.21.154.x posted: 2/9/2007 at 11:46:57 PM ET Oh. Thanks! Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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