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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
- Subject: Re: Electronic Tuners
- Message-ID: <63617@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:11:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.184121.15151@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- dlang@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Lang) writes:
- >
- > I'm considering buying an electronic tuner for tuning my
- >guitar and I was wondering if anybody has any opinions/recommendations
- >on these units. I primarily play acoustic and was wondering if there
- >are certain ones I should buy or simply stay away from because of the
- >performance of the little built-in micropohone (ie. problems with
- >picking up noise while trying to tune). I was also wondering if
- >people prefer the digital LED types or the traditional analog tuners
- >which have a meter on the face.
-
- I got a quartz electronic tuner secondhand for ten or fifteen bucks.
- It probably went for around $30 new. It's the kind with the meter on the
- face. As long as I hold the microphone part right against the soundboard,
- there's no problem. I do find it works much better if I play a 12th
- fret harmonic - or even if I pluck the string right above the 12th fret -
- so that the fundamental is strong.
-
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