Tuning

Bob Sloan · Post by **Bob Sloan** » 21 Jan 2014 5:58 pm

I NEED HELP WITH TUNING, i DONT UNDERSTAND CENTS, I UNDERSTAND 440 441 AND SO ON. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP. Thanks. Bob.

Lane Gray · Post by **Lane Gray** » 21 Jan 2014 6:11 pm

A cent is 1/100 of a semitone, so most folks would tune their G#s to around 8 cents flat, their Bs a titch sharp, et c.
Most tuners have dials demarcated (marked) in cents, few tuners have that silly Hertz scale (sorry, YOU CANNOT TUNE AN E TO 442. THEN IT'S AN A. Unless your B is 660) anymore. The semantics of Hertz tuning are so incredibly odious that I rejected them as soon as I understood them.
(And people STILL think I have reasoned and mature opinions.)
BTW, welcome to the forum, welcome to the steel guitar.
Also, Buddy Emmons tunes his to straight up.

Michael Coggins · Post by **Michael Coggins** » 22 Jan 2014 5:28 am

Hi Bob,
As a newbie to PSG tuning, I found these links helpful:
http://www.larrybell.org/id29.htm
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum11/HTML/009148.html
http://www.petersontuners.com/iforum/lo ... ?t506.html

Also see Larry Bell's post here:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=258796

Makes cents to me!

Dick Sexton · Post by **Dick Sexton** » 22 Jan 2014 6:57 am

This older Forum Post probably comes closest to answering the question asked.

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum11/HTML/009148.html

If you will notice the Hertz to Cents Chart a few posts down, you can get a visual of all the technical jargon.

Whatever happened to Jeddadia Hertz anyway? Was he the guy that killed little Minnie Cycle. Any others here live through that murder?

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