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Guitarrón tuner
A free guitarrón tuner in your phone's browser: the Mexican guitarrón's six strings, A D G C E A with the top A dropping back down, with a needle and the cents. Nothing uploaded.
Six strings, no frets, the first A drops back. Mika takes the low A through its overtones.The microphone closes when you stop, when all is in tune, or after half a minute of quiet. Nothing is recorded.
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The strings in Hz
| String | Note | Hz |
|---|---|---|
| 6th | A1 | 55.00 |
| 5th | D2 | 73.42 |
| 4th | G2 | 98.00 |
| 3rd | C3 | 130.81 |
| 2nd | E3 | 164.81 |
| 1st | A2 | 110.00 |
At A4 = 440 Hz; the reference switch above moves them all.
How to tune
The guitarrón is the mariachi's bass, a big six-string with a vaulted back and no frets. It's tuned A D G C E A, and the last A turns back: after rising to the E, the first string drops to the A below it, an octave above the sixth string. The low A sits at 55 Hz, so the tuner reads it through its overtones.
With no frets, the open strings are the only fixed notes: tune them carefully and check them often. The guitarrón is played in octaves, two strings at once, so after tuning each string, pluck the octave pairs the music uses, such as the sixth and first strings on A, and listen for the beating to stop.
Then play something
The notes you tuned can go into Brumm as a short melody over a beat. Hum a line on top and it becomes an instrument.
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