To tune a guitar requires a good ear for music. Special guitar tuners make this work easier, but they are expensive. An ordinary personal computer can replace such a tuner.
Instructions
Step 1
To tune the guitar using a computer using the first method, use a program that generates sounds of specified frequencies. Make the program generate a sound corresponding to the frequency of a particular string, then, using this sound as a reference, tune the string, for example, according to beats. Regardless of what OS your computer is running, you can use the following Pascal program designed to build with the Turbo Pascal 5.5 compiler: program tuner;
uses crt;
begin
repeat
begin
sound (number)
end
until keypressed;
nosound
end. where number is the sound frequency in hertz. If your computer does not have a DOS operating system, use its emulator: DOSEMU (Linux only), DOSBOX (Linux and Windows). Do not forget to connect the system speaker to the motherboard - the program works through it.
Step 2
If your computer is running Linux and your guitar is a 6-string, download and build from source the following program: https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/stable/guitar-tuner.c.html.en It works through a sound card
Step 3
On a Windows operating system, use the following program for a similar purpose:
Step 4
The second way to tune your guitar with a computer is to use a program that measures the frequency of the sound that goes into the microphone input. On Windows, use the following program to do this
Step 5
Away from your computer, to tune your guitar, use your phone with the following J2ME application
Step 6
If the program you are using for generating sound or measuring its frequency does not contain a ready-made list of frequencies for the strings, for a six-string guitar, tune them to the following frequencies: - the first - 329, 63 Hz;
- the second - 246, 94 Hz;
- the third - 196, 00 Hz;
- the fourth - 146, 83 Hz;
- the fifth - 110 Hz;
- the sixth - 82, 41 Hz.
Step 7
Tune the strings of a seven-string guitar to the following frequencies: - the first - 293, 66 Hz;
- the second - 246, 96 Hz;
- the third - 196, 00 Hz;
- the fourth - 147, 83 Hz;
- the fifth - 123, 48 Hz;
- sixth - 98, 00 Hz;
- seventh - 73, 91 Hz.
