Tuning to 60hz on Guitar

[jackson park]

Hello all,

I was wondering what I would have to set the standard a=440hz to make the low e on a guitar 60hz. I think it's around 320hz but have no idea if I'm right.

In general I was wondering if any of you had any experience trying to tune to the 60hz hum and how you went about it. (Like tuning the b to a 60hz octave harmonic)

thanks!

[Scodiddly]

The A string on a guitar is 110Hz, I believe. E would then be around 82.4Hz. 60Hz is right in between Bb and B below that, though it would not be difficult to tune the B on the A string to 60Hz hum.

[nordberg]

tune your 'e' string to the 60hz, tune your 'a' string to the 'e' string, plug your guitar into a tuner and see what it reads.

-mike

[Chris_Meck]

An 'A' string in standard tuning is 440hz.

[Ron's Brother]

Sorry for the stupid question.... why are you wanting to do this?

[The Scum]

From here, open A in standard tuning is 110 Hz.

Then, from here, we see that 60 Hz is between B and Bb. If you're clever, you can use that to get pretty close, but if you're looking for dead-on concert pitch, line buzz won't get you there. Won't get you anywhere close in 60% of the world, either.

If you're looking for a convenient pitch reference, there's a closer one here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise_Tone_Plan

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bad-dog-cafe ... -tone.html

[MoreSpaceEcho]

An 'A' string in standard tuning is 440hz.

i don't mean to be negative, but no.

open A on a guitar is 110hz.

[clayworx]

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

[LazarusLong]

Also, depending on the age / type / time of day / maintenance schedule of your local power plant, you are possibly not getting 60Hz exactly. Anyway, have fun. Love to hear how you are going to utilize this!

[tubetapexfmr]

Also, depending on the age / type / time of day / maintenance schedule of your local power plant, you are possibly not getting 60Hz exactly. Anyway, have fun. Love to hear how you are going to utilize this!

Wrong. You ALWAYS get 60hz, things run on that as a standard. This never changes. Its the voltage that sways back and forth from 110 to 130ish.

[Scodiddly]

Also, depending on the age / type / time of day / maintenance schedule of your local power plant, you are possibly not getting 60Hz exactly. Anyway, have fun. Love to hear how you are going to utilize this!

Wrong. You ALWAYS get 60hz, things run on that as a standard. This never changes. Its the voltage that sways back and forth from 110 to 130ish.

Wrong! The line frequency can vary just a little bit if needed to tweak how the grid is working. But it's never going to be any change you'd notice by ear.

[CraigS63]

Also, depending on the age / type / time of day / maintenance schedule of your local power plant, you are possibly not getting 60Hz exactly. Anyway, have fun. Love to hear how you are going to utilize this!

Wrong. You ALWAYS get 60hz, things run on that as a standard. This never changes. Its the voltage that sways back and forth from 110 to 130ish.

I have an extension cord running over to England, to get that real British amp mojo and whatnot. 50 hz.

[Chris_Meck]

doh!

that was dumb. Teach me to post without thinking.

[farview]

Find a 60 hz sine wave and tune the string to that. Then tune the guitar to that string.

[jackson park]

Wow thanks for the responses!

-I wanted to use this tuning to possibly mess around with a drone sort of washed out sound. I have a pretty shitty analog keyboard that has a tuner knob on it and I thought it could lead to something fun.

also, I've heard about lou reed doing this in the early velvet days or maybe even before that during his Ostrich days.

-Thanks for all the suggestions again. I guess the easiest way to do this, as sort of suggested, is to just use my ear and tune the 2nd fret b (b2) on the A string to 120hz... normally it's 123.47hz.

However, I would prefer to use my tuner to do this, which has the ability to change the A=440hz parameter. If I changed b2 to 120hz, what would that make A4?

Thanks!