About favourite tuners and "sweetened tuning".

[Silly Moustache]

Hi folks, just reading through Sax Player Guy's poll on favourite tuners,
It is perhaps worth mentioning that whichever tunr is your choice, getting the open strings perfectly in tune does not mean that a note fretted on the string will always be in tune.
No tuner can realistically be expected to compensated for high/low frets, bents strings, or heavy finger pressure sharpening the note as the string is pulled over the fret onto the fretboard.
It gets even worse when you add in a capo!

it used to be that some guitars did not have accurately placed frets and/or misplaced saddles leading to poor intonation - I suspect that technology has reduced that somewhat, but the guitar is not a perfect thing, and at best, tuning is an art rather than a science.

I'm a heavy handed bluegrass dreadnought thumper, used to medium strings, and have to"adjust" my playing when I use one of my smaller instruments with light strings.


So, many/most of us, "sweeten" the tuning.

This is how I do it -

[12barBill]

Thanks for sharing Andy!