Temperament question?

[Marty Forrer]

Is there a list anywhere of the temperament tuning for E9? I got most of them from the Howcast video, but there's a couple missing.
Cheers.

[Earnest Bovine]

The beautiful thing about this Forum is that you can find hundreds of posts if you search for "temperament", "tuning", "JI", "ET", "cents", etc etc.

[Steve Mueller]

My sweetest sounding temperments to date are: 1) E's to 440, 2) tune B's and F#'s using harmonics to E's, 3) tune G#'s to 438 to 438.5, as sharp as your ears will allow, 4) tune D# harmonically to G#, 5) tune - A,s harmonically to E's, 6) D harmonically to A, 7) C# harmonically to G#, 8)F's the same number of beats to the C# as you tuned the G# to the E. Basically, you'll find it comes down to most notes will be within a couple hundreths of a semitone of 440 except your 3rd's 436.5and 6th's. The G# and C# should be around 438-438.5 and the F the farthest off since it's the 3rd of the C# at around 436-437. This process using harmonics will also account for cabinet drop/raise. Once you've established your temperments for your guitar you can use a tuner to retune. The closer you can get to 440 the better you'll sound with other instruments.

[Lane Gray]

I like to tune everything but A#, G#, D#, C# and F to 0. Those go to - 4 cents.
Or look at this chart
www.buddyemmons.com/ttchart.htm
Steve, few tuners have that scale anymore.
And tuner apps that display Hertz don't display deviation Hertz, but actual frequency. Which would result in every note being A.

[Tommy Shown]

I tune strings 1,4,5,7,8,9,10 straight up 440. I tune strings 2,3,and 6 12cnts flat. This gives me perfect tuning. on my E9 neck. Jim Lindsey and Hal Higgins showed me how it was done. For years I was not doing this right. But Hal and Jim took some time to show me how it was done.
Tommy

[James Wolf]

I tune strings 1,4,5,7,8,9,10 straight up 440. I tune strings 2,3,and 6 12cnts flat. This gives me perfect tuning. on my E9 neck. Jim Lindsey and Hal Higgins showed me how it was done. For years I was not doing this right. But Hal and Jim took some time to show me how it was done.
Tommy

How about your pedals and levers? By ear?

[Mark Nix]

This was given to me by Jerry Meek when I purchased my steel from him, he said it was given to him by Doug Jernigan over 40 years ago. I love the way it sounds and I never have a problem with the other instruments in the group tuning to straight 440. I've not tried many others as the tuner I use is rather difficult to operate (gotta get a Peterson soon...) so I just stick with what I'm used to now. Once I get a better tuner I'll definitely be more willing to try different ones, but unless I find something that my ear likes better, I'll likely revert back to this Jernigan tuning.
Thanks,
Mark

[b0b]

Here's my basic, quick-tune temperament, in cents:



*The 6th string F# is tuned to 0, and the G (split with the B pedal) is tuned to +10.