Electronic Tuner for Pennywhistle?
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Another vote for the Korg CA-30. I never imagined that I would be with the popular choice , on this one. The two things that make it "work" for me is it's reliability and portability. I just stick it in my shirt pocket and drag it out whenever I feel the need. I'ts there when I need it !!
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Thanks folks for the advice. I've been resisting buying a tuner for 35 years. (I'm a professional piano tuner, trained to tune by ear.) But when it comes to getting those first notes right on the whistle, yeaowww! By the way, I just got two gorgeous whistles today from Mike Burke -- a low A and low G!
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Was in the market for a tuner, found this thread, and ordered the Korg. Amazon.com is now selling assorted musical instrument items in association with certain merchants. Anyway, I ordered it through amazon.com and it was $15.talimirr743 wrote:I agree with Wanderer, I use a Korg and its always very accurate.
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Cool..just be careful about some merchants through Amazon. I think Lark in the Morning has a straight $10.00 shipping fee, so a $15.00 tuner becomes $25.00, no cheaper than anywhere else.DaleWisely wrote:Was in the market for a tuner, found this thread, and ordered the Korg. Amazon.com is now selling assorted musical instrument items in association with certain merchants. Anyway, I ordered it through amazon.com and it was $15.talimirr743 wrote:I agree with Wanderer, I use a Korg and its always very accurate.
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I've used the Korg and the Seiko with no problems (we used them for our dulcimers, too). I, personally like the Seiko better - it seems to be a little more "stabile", and I like the 9V instead of the AAA batteries (longer life). It also picks up my bass dulcimer notes better - but that's not a problem for playing whistles.
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Korg used to make a beast of a machine - about the size of a small hardcover book - that also had a metronome. It was an analog display, and it was the only tuner that could read a piccolo, dulcimer, or contrabass clarinet with equal ease. If you see one at a garage sale, get it. I also find that an analog needle display is easier than little winkie LCD blobs.
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dear folks:
for how nit-picky i can be to get my guitar in tune with a tuner, when it comes to a pennywhistle, i prefer to adjust the pitch to what sounds best with the other instruments that i'm playing with. the other musician's don't have the capability and it's a whole lot quicker for me to adjust than for them to adjust. there is quite a variance of tone by how a note is blown (as one of you mentioned) so it's not so much getting the pennywhistle in tune as it is getting myself in tune and there isn't a tuning slide on me, at least anywhere i've looked.
regis
for how nit-picky i can be to get my guitar in tune with a tuner, when it comes to a pennywhistle, i prefer to adjust the pitch to what sounds best with the other instruments that i'm playing with. the other musician's don't have the capability and it's a whole lot quicker for me to adjust than for them to adjust. there is quite a variance of tone by how a note is blown (as one of you mentioned) so it's not so much getting the pennywhistle in tune as it is getting myself in tune and there isn't a tuning slide on me, at least anywhere i've looked.
regis
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I love my Korg. The only gripe I have is with the documentation...if I'd had to rely on that to use it, I'd still be struggling with it. Fortunately, once you start using it, it's pretty intuitive. The instructions make it sound a lot more complicated than it is!
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I had my first Korg for many years and it never failed. Till I left in my shirt pocket, and it went through the washing machine and dryer. It came out clean, and looked new again. But it did not know what it was doing.fluti31415 wrote:Korg -- I have had mine for about 15 years (they were quite expensive back then), and it has served me well. Even after being thrown against the wall a few times.
I bought a new Korg 30 to take its place.
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I just got a Korg metronome/tuner combo for Christmas. Love it.
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