Tuning the F & B Strings of a Harp

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Hi! I’m Jesse Sparhawk on behalf of Expert Village, and we are continuing to tune the harp. I can be reached at www.myspace.com/jessesparhawk . So, perfect fifth, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, perfect fourth, octave, perfect fourth, perfect fourth, F to B flat. It would be much more difficult if we were tuning to C major to be trying to tune this natural interval in C major, which is what’s known as a tri-tone, or augmented 4th. So there’s two advantages with having those levers tuned to B flat: You can get into F, you can get into C, and you can tune the Fs and B-flats the same way. So we’re going up and down the line as we did with the As and Es, and all the rest of the strings. Fs & Bs, Fs & Bs, to correct this one, quiet the rest of the strings to get a better bead on it, tightening that F, getting as close as humanly possible. So we’ve got everything tuned. Another addendum is that to begin you should, if you find it necessary, use an electronic tuner, especially for young people starting out, and for parents, to tune a string to an electronic tuner. You notice, this one isn’t terribly accurate. I find my ear to be more so. But if you find a good quality tuner I recommend not to rely on the electronic tuner for the entire harp, but only to use it for those ten strings that we covered. The tuning that we’ve just done was completely by ear with only the tuning fork to start, the A-440. If you feel like you need an electronic tuner, that’s totally fine. But try to only rely on it for those middle ten strings, and then really begin to train your ear to cover the rest. And that’s tuning the harp!

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