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Move to a piece in another key, though and you have to tweak some more. In reality, most players will tweak a bit according to what they are playing, and can sound more 'in tune' as a result for that particular piece. So you can end up going round in circles. That sounds fine, until you play a Cmaj, where the C on B2 will sound too flat. But play an open Amaj in equal temperament and the C# on B2 will sound too sharp, so you want to flatten it a bit. However, most guitarists are very familiar with the sounds of what might be called the 'home' chords of say, Emaj, Amaj, Dmaj, Gmaj, Cmaj. Whether or not that will be satisfactory is a different matter, primarily because equal temperament itself is designed to be a bit 'out of tune' in all keys, so that with a fixed fret instrument like a guitar, you can play in all these different keys and still sound acceptable. Your guitar will then be 'in tune' (assuming there are no other issues with the nut, saddle etc.). But yes, they are good for getting in the right range.Ī decent electronic tuner will tune your open strings very accurately to equal temperament. At least the ones I have just don't satisfy. You can tune any guitar to any tuning ,fast and accurately. Strings wrote:I think the best and easy way is to to tune a guitar is with a good quality guitar tuner.I use a Matrix Chromatic tuner.