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Sure enough, my tuning was the slightest bit sharp on quite a few notes. I had gotten so used to it that they were the "right" notes according to my ear. …

And of course, the music is still all written with temperament in mind--everything is going to be grounded in contemporary methods of tuning; it's just that professionals can use their ears to eliminate … Toby Twining has released three albums, each 10 years apart, all using extended vocal techniques and alternate tuning systems. …

So what path you choose to get to any particular note is important in determining what its tuning is going to be. … This means in JI a modulation is possible, but will bear little resemblance to a modulation in a tempered tuning system. …

It sounds like those are octave designations. Middle C on a piano is either C3 or C4, depending on who you ask. If you play a chromatic scale to test, you should see the numbers break between B and C. …

High school trumpet players are notorious for tuning sharp without realizing it, because it makes their sound stand out a little from the rest of the section without sounding "bad" compared to the rest …

If you need somewhere to start, I would make sure he can hear differences in pitch. This can be as simple as playing a note, playing another note, and then asking if it was higher, lower, or the same. …

Different instruments are going to have different constructions and tuning tendencies. … So the end-all of it is that each partial is going to have different tuning tendencies. …

Your two options really are shaving them down (assuming they aren't dirty with excess mass to begin with) or adding weight--probably with some kind of heavy gum or resin either near the center or edge …

All wind instruments use the breath, embouchure, and occasionally tuning slide adjustments or alternate fingerings to adjust tuning on the small scale. … Even guitarists have some options for tuning adjustment, but their instrument has so many other tuning idiosyncrasies to take into account that I'm sure just intonation gets a serious back seat. …

Making a show of how you are tuning the timpani is NOT the way to go. … (You also hurt yourself by tuning the wrong notes!) …

If it's an exceedingly low-quality product, it could just be that the fretboard is badly designed enough that the notes are just not in the right place, but realistically, all guitars exhibit tuning issues … (Relatedly, this is one reason power chords are so prevalent in guitar music -- aside from being easier to play, they also use few enough notes that tuning issues don't arise.) …

. :-) Before you start thinking about instruments, materials, or tuning, you need some ballpark as to what this resonant frequency actually is. … If so, then the frequency is within the range of the human voice, approx. 80Hz-1,100Hz Once you have your target frequency, then you can go about finding/tuning an instrument. …

Is this a school band? As a band director, you should feel comfortable triaging each instrument yourself. Were I in this situation, I would go fetch my own soprano sax mouthpiece, take the instrument, …