Cleartune Instrument Tuner And A Lesson On Juxtaposition
The floor tuner is a relatively recent invention in comparison to some of the more traditional instruments that Juan Dies and his fellow musicians in Sones de Mexico play. That's why Juan recommends the Cleartune application for the iPhone. Though this is a new addition to the traditional folk music they play, Juan and the rest of the ensemble need to keep in tune somehow, and with nothing to plug into, Cleartune is the way to go.
[JUAN DIES AND FRIENDS PERFORMING]
JUAN DIES: My name is Juan Dies. I'm with Sones de Mexico Ensemble, and I'm here in my home with two of my friends: Juan Rivera, who is a fiddler in the Sones de Mexico Ensemble, and Irekani Chavez with Tarima Son, who is a music director. And we have brought all of our instruments together today to show some of the solutions that we found for ethnic folk musicians for whom electroacoustic instruments are not made. WE have to find our own solutions to deal with multi-instrumentalism and mic'ing instruments from around the world.
[JUAN DIES USING CLEARTUNE]
Ethnic musicians who play several instruments always have to deal with tuning. Tuning instruments that are handmade or with different tonalities or ranges. I play usually bass and it's really hard to tune a bass with most tuners because the frequency's so low but one of the best tuners that I found is actually an iPhone application called Cleartune, and it's got this nice little rotating wheel, and it's very accurate and it picks up all kinds of -- It probably has to do with the quality of the microphone on thia little phobe, but this is -- we'll get this out of tune a little bit so I want to see how very accurate it can get to. Wonderful application.
[JUAN DIES USING CLEARTUNE]
[JUAN DIES PERFORMING WITH FRIENDS]
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