Hello Everyone,

I see so many mandolin players (even professionals) using tuning machines, while it is easy to learn to tune without. Once you copy the A from a tuning fork (or piano, ...), there are only three notes left to tune. And the interval you have to tune to is always a fifth, which is the most easy interval to recognise after a unison and an octave.
However, keep in mind that you are tuning a fretted instrument, so you have to tune in tempered fifths. These are just a fraction narrower than perfect fifths. Once you become used to tuning this way, you won't even bother about the machine anymore.
Musicians have tuned their instruments without tuning machines for hundreds of years, and it never has been a problem, so why should it be a problem today?
Isn't it just wonderful to free yourself of another machine in this day and age?


Thanks for watching and keep practising!
Ralf.

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