B. Howard wrote:
Intonation can be dependent on how a player tunes the instrument at times. For a spell in the 80's me and my bandmates got into tuning our stuff to beatless 5ths.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, unless it's like how I used to tune folk harps without a tuner back in the day. A tuning fork would give me an A-440, and I'd tune the E and D strings off the A strings using fifths, and then the B and G strings, and so on. It would sound fairly awful until I went back and fiddles with some of the strings so the chords came out better. I learned later that that's what "tempering" the strings was all about. I still trust electronic tuners only about 95% ... a little tempering still has to be done on my guitars and uke, particularly the B string. Maybe the Tune-Tech tuners are too cheap to give accurate results.