Fine Tuners – A Guide – Part Two

Built-In on Tailpieces

Fine tuners can also be found on built-in fine tuner tailpieces. In this instance, tailpieces – often metallic – come with all four fine tuners attached.

This set-up can prove the easier and most ideal for beginner violin students who need fine tuners, as individual fine tuners can rattle as well as cause scratches on the underside of the fine-tuner due to design, if loosened too greatly.

Another benefit of built in violin fine tuners means less trouble with the additional weight of fine tuners, which can be especially heavy in some instances, and for cellos in particular. 

Benefits of Fine Tuners – Precision and Color

The benefits that accrue to having fine tuners in instances where one cannot but have them – i.e. in the case of steel strings – are great.

Fine tuners also allow musicians to correctly adjust pitch on the string of an instrument with very fine movement.

In contrast to having to use relatively great force to turn the larger pegs, all one needs are small movements to twist fine tuner dials right or left, with just the fingers of one hand.

Turning with pegs, by contrast, may need two, and even the situation of the instrument on your lap to secure it in place in order for the correct movement and force to be made. 

Fine tuners offer violinists the possibility of intense precision and instrumental color, as a consequence, and should be considered if one is seeking to improve intonation on a more foundational and fundamental level in ways that practice itself might not improve.

Fine Tuners as an Educational and Independence Tool for Young Beginners

This makes fine tuning possible for small children and young beginners in ways that it would not be without them.

As a consequence, fine tuners will greatly benefit young musicians who can learn how to tune their own instruments without adult supervision, and most critically, strength; or with strength of their own.

Thus, fine tuners also make student ensembles, concerts, and recitals possible for children in ways that would not be possible without adult or parental supervision.

This makes the fine tuners an especially helpful education and developmental tool.

Fine Tuners for Ensemble Work and Symphonic or Chamber and Orchestral Musicians

Fine tuning, which only makes possible just a half step’s pitch variation, may also be very useful for ensemble contexts or chamber groups, where pitch needs to be comprehensively cohered. It is also helpful for a professional violinist or soloist who wants to express things with tone color and precision of.

In many instances, violinists – professional and beyond – can turn to the use of one or two fine tuners on and for the A and E strings respectively, often depending on the string material. Many violinists use only one fine tuner, for the forth and highest steel E string. This said, the use of a maximum of one or two fine tuners strikes precisely an ideal balance of weight and clarity that one gets through weighing up the balance of fine and peg-based string tuning. 

If one lives in temperate environments, then the concern of the temperature range, temperature changes, dryness and humidity all come into play while one is shopping for cases and trying to determine which are suitable for purchase.

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