Instrument Tuning Quotes

I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.

People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.

I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

When I work with actors, we try to tune the instrument so that you can feel things and allow those emotions to wash through you. You allow the fear to happen, and then you react and you listen without trying to get too absorbed into the actual end mark that you're supposed to hit.