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I encourage you to have a spirit of adventure when you're tuning your dulcimer.

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You may be afraid of that. You might be afraid you're gonna break a string.

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Well, strings can be replaced.

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And I can guarantee this, you will break a string.

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It's like when I we got our daughter her first drum

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so she could practice for the school band.

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The guy at the drum shop handed her the drum key and he says here's the first drum key you will ever lose.

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Maybe crack up.

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But it helps set the expectation it's not going to be the end of the world when you lose a drum key.

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You can get a new one.

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It's not going to be the end of the world when you when, not if, but when you break a string.

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You can replace it.

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Okay.

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So now

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what do we tune the pitches to and how do we do that?

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The old traditional way was hooing into the who.

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That pitch made my whole instrument vibrate.

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That's the one that this instrument wants to be at.

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It what is it on the scale?

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I don't know, but I know that that's what made the instrument come alive. So okay.

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That's called hooing into the hole, and I just through pitches starting at the top and going down and come back up until

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I could tell where it vibrates all the time. Then I that pitch and I make a match.

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Now,

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how do I tune the rest of the strings from that? This is the traditional way to tune.

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Before there were batteries, before there were tuners,

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before people had tuning forks,

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they did it by ear.

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But I can't do anything by ear!

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You've done everything by ear since you were born.

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You're just learning the skill again and refining

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it. So

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the typical way, the most normal way you're going to tune your middle string after your bass string is tuned is you're going to put your finger

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just to the left of the 4th fret. I'm going to count 1, 2, 3, 4,

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and I'm going to have to make that middle string match.

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I went to the wrong one. I turned and nothing happened.

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So.

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Some people reach across like that so they can keep this note ringing.

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Did you hear how it came into tune? I'm gonna take it back out.

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When they got really close, there was a little beating, like a vibrato kind of thing.

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When they came in tune, that stopped.

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That's the trick piano tuners use.

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Now what I've done is given my first note is a 1.

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I've just made my middle middle string be the 5th pitch of that scale. The do sa,

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twinkle twinkle

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little star.

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That's that relationship.

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Now what I tune my melody string to depends on my preference.

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There are the old traditional way which is the way the instrument was laid out is to have your string be 155

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in relation

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ship,

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and then my scale starts.

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And you might notice this instrument does not have a 6 and a half fret.

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So when I play from 3 to 10, I've got all the notes I need for to play major mode songs.

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I've also got the notes below do when I need those notes. They're all in the melody string.

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A 155

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tuning.

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Now, we haven't talked about what notes they are yet, but I've tuned the instrument to itself so it sounds happy.

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The other