As a help before you learn the above process you can use the electronic tuner or tuning application to tune all the strings. It may be difficult for a beginner to hear the beats when the fifths are out of tune or even to recognize whether the string you are tuning is high or low, you have to learn that gradually as well. Then you check again the A string, retune it if necessary and check all the strings again. You repeat the tuning between D and G strings, then A and E strings. You then turn the finetuner until the dissonance disappears and you hear only the consonant fifth interval. The process of tuning the violin is following: once you have the A string tuned, you play the double stop on open A-D strings and listen to dissonant beats like wah, wah, wah. The finetuners are a necessity in case of fractional instruments. You can experiment later with different kind of synthetic or steel strings to find the most beautiful sound of the instrument but at the very beginning your priority is intonation and steel strings are very stable and half turn of a fine tuner can be sufficient to get the violin in tune. Your instrument has to be properly set up for that, have it checked and set up by luthier as a part of a regular maintenance and as a beginner make your life easy and invest in decent set of steel strings and tailpiece with four integrated finetuners such as Wittner. To be able to play in tune, your violin has to be in tune with itself, you have to tune the violin.
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The advice on how to develop playing in tune is aimed at the beginning players but even intermediate level players can pick useful points and benefit from it.
As a beginner you have to use all possible aids and strategies to help you learn to play in tune. What he meant was that, aside external factors like a faulty string or a slipping peg that can be fixed, playing in tune depends entirely on you, the player, and it is possible to achieve that with effective practice. " Intonation is a matter of conscience", a quotation attributed to the great cellist Pablo Casals.
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