Tuning A Classical Guitar (And Why That Is Difficult!)

If you play a properly tuned guitar, your music is as beautiful as you can play it. Playing masterfully on a badly tune instrument instead can take away all the magic.

The classical guitar isn't that easy to tune: the notes of the Equal Temperament are in mistune to the harmonics of the single strings.

Guitarists react differently to the resulting beatings, and so tuning by ear becomes to some degree not only a matter of capability of one's ear, but also a matter of taste and "personal intonation".

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Fooling The Electronic Tuner
01:36 Out Of Tune?
02:41 Equally Tempered Notes Are All Out Of Tune!
03:35 Dinosaur Tuning
05:10 The String-To-String Problem And How To Minimize It
06:25 Mind The Overtones By Sympathy
07:29 The Geissler Method: Reference String And Harmonics
09:33 Cross-Checks
10:37 Mind Intonation While Tuning With fitted Notes!
11:41 Check Chords Of The Piece You Play
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