I am aiming to get key-covers...I haven't done so yet..due to the usual failure of one of: remembering to do it, having the money, and being in a place to get them all at the same time.
I don't have an iPhone, I have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, an Android phone...the google voice search is pretty good. I am experimenting with various Android apps as well. I have a plugin for FBreader that does TTS, for example. Soon I will try audio call display...that should be fun, especially when I am on the bus!
In Canada, we have the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, or the CNIB.I just send them a query. I have a meeting with my social assistance worker next week, and I am going to start the process of being put on disability.
As for a tuner...well, here is a bit of trivia about guitar tuning you might not know...on most guitars, a tuner will allow you to put all of the stings at the right pitch for the note, but the entire guitar, when you play chords, will be just slightly out of tune. It is only when the intonation of each string is correctly set up that the whole instrument is in tune with itself. On an electric guitar, the bridge has adjustments to alter the intonation of the string by adjusting it's length from nut to bridge. Acoustic guitar have to be adjusted by a luthier who does that same adjustment with a file and other instruments. Some high-end acoustic guitars do have adjustable bridges. So, doing the relative tuning, the 5th fret thingy, can, with a good ear, put your guitar more in tune than a tuner.
You can test the intonation of your guitar by playing a harmonic over the 12th fret, and then fretting the same string on the 12th fret. If you the two notes are the same, then you have a proper intonation on you guitar.
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Date: 2013-07-04 03:45 am (UTC)I don't have an iPhone, I have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, an Android phone...the google voice search is pretty good. I am experimenting with various Android apps as well. I have a plugin for FBreader that does TTS, for example. Soon I will try audio call display...that should be fun, especially when I am on the bus!
In Canada, we have the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, or the CNIB.I just send them a query. I have a meeting with my social assistance worker next week, and I am going to start the process of being put on disability.
As for a tuner...well, here is a bit of trivia about guitar tuning you might not know...on most guitars, a tuner will allow you to put all of the stings at the right pitch for the note, but the entire guitar, when you play chords, will be just slightly out of tune. It is only when the intonation of each string is correctly set up that the whole instrument is in tune with itself. On an electric guitar, the bridge has adjustments to alter the intonation of the string by adjusting it's length from nut to bridge. Acoustic guitar have to be adjusted by a luthier who does that same adjustment with a file and other instruments. Some high-end acoustic guitars do have adjustable bridges. So, doing the relative tuning, the 5th fret thingy, can, with a good ear, put your guitar more in tune than a tuner.
You can test the intonation of your guitar by playing a harmonic over the 12th fret, and then fretting the same string on the 12th fret. If you the two notes are the same, then you have a proper intonation on you guitar.
But then again, you might already know all that!