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04-19-2001, 03:20 PM
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Can i tune my bass to a piano? 
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04-19-2001, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bonn, Germany | | | I don`t exactly know what you mean.
If you want to ask if you can tune the pitch of the strings while listening to the same notes on a piano... yes you can.
But I play for about a year know, and I´m still not perfectly able to hear the right tuning...
David
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04-19-2001, 03:35 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | As long as the piano's in tune, yes. |
04-19-2001, 04:39 PM
| | | | You can tune a bass but you can't tuna fish. |
04-19-2001, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Canada | | | boogiebass...
That was just horrible! lol!
I wonder why it made me laugh though??? lol! |
04-19-2001, 05:39 PM
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04-19-2001, 08:51 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Easton, Pennsylvania | | | Rumblefish?
Well... You can tune a piano to standard and tune a bass to standard, so I'm assuming they'd both be in tune then, wouldn't they?
You could even play along with a piano while in drop d or 1/4 step down or whatever. It's all a matter of how you want to sound. |
04-19-2001, 10:58 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | Yes.
Find the appropriate keys on the keyboard and have someone play and hold them one at a time as you tune your strings to them. |
04-19-2001, 11:18 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: In your basement. | | Quote: Originally posted by boogiebass
You can tune a bass but you can't tuna fish. | Aww man that's so REO Speedwagon.  |
04-20-2001, 12:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | Quote: Originally posted by SuperDuck
As long as the piano's in tune, yes. | I want it on record that I disagree with the above statement. You can tune your bass to a piano, even if the piano is out of tune. And I'll take that one step farther and state that, if you tune your bass to an out of tune piano, your bass will be in tune - relative to the out of tune piano. You can trust me on that - I have one of those 'official columnist'-looking pics for an avatar.
Oh, and you CAN tuna fish! (get it?) Can... tuna.... |
04-20-2001, 01:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | Quote: Originally posted by XavierG
Oh, and you CAN tuna fish! (get it?) Can... tuna.... | Now I disagree - you CAN TUNA DOLPHIN but that's a mammal - not a fish......
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04-20-2001, 06:12 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote: Originally posted by FleaRHCP
Can i tune my bass to a piano? | Of course! Virtually every music class or workshop I've ever attended has started with the tutor saying that we should tune up and everyone tuning to an 'A' from the Piano. I've always tuned to my keyboard at home, which is digital and can't be out of tune - I prefer this and although I have a tuner, I feel I get a better overall sound in terms of intonation when I tune to the keyboard as opposed to the tuner.
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04-24-2001, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Hemet, CA USA | | | No! Absolutely not! What are you thinking?! Tuning to...oh, a piano. Nevermind. I thought we were talking about tuning a bass to a tuna fish.
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04-24-2001, 04:43 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | Quote: Originally posted by XavierG
I want it on record that I disagree with the above statement. You can tune your bass to a piano, even if the piano is out of tune. And I'll take that one step farther and state that, if you tune your bass to an out of tune piano, your bass will be in tune - relative to the out of tune piano. You can trust me on that - I have one of those 'official columnist'-looking pics for an avatar.
Oh, and you CAN tuna fish! (get it?) Can... tuna.... |  Yes, and that's all well and good if it's a bass/piano duet. If you tune EVERYONE (guitars, sitar, banjos, etc.) to the piano, then you'll all be in tune to each other. But if the piano is off, and some schmoe pulls out a tuner, it's all out of whack.
And just you wait... someday I'll have an official looking avatar... you'll be sorry then... |
04-24-2001, 04:47 PM
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