[Harp-L] electronic tuners

[Robert Hale]

Harp Tuners:
what electronic tuner are you using? and why?
Thanks.

Robert Hale, "the Duke Of Wail"
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[Winslow Yerxa]

I use a Peterson VS-II virtual strobe. This is easily portable, and gives me the kind of helpful detail I can't seem to get from a needle or LED based tuner.

It stores multiple temperaments, but I prefer to work with offsets from 12TET.

I can set the pitch level in tenths of a Hertz, and I can set offsets in cents from that. So if I want to tune a harp to 19-limit just at A=441.5 Hz, I can set the pitch level globally, then for the note I'm working on, I can offset it 2 cents sharp, 14 cents flat, or whatever, and tune to that.

The virtual strobe display can be very helpful in tuning octaves, as you can see a visual representation of what's in or out of tune between the two notes. It's helped me train my ear to detect minute amounts of sharp of flat on a particular note, where before all I could hear was in or out of tune.

Why this specific model? It was available used on eBay at a good price.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Robert Hale <ynf...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Robert Hale <ynf...@gmail.com>
Subject: [Harp-L] electronic tuners
To: "Harp-L@Harp-L. Org" <har...@harp-l.org>
Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 6:49 AM

[captr...@aol.com]

Robert Hale wrote:
Harp Tuners: what electronic tuner are you using? and why?

Interesting to note that a professional technician like Richard Sleigh uses a Korg CA-30.
I'm not a professional harp tuner. If I were, I'd probably own a mechanical strobe tuner like a
Peterson strobe or the Conn tuner that you can see in Richard's YouTube tuning videos.
?A few months ago i bought a Peterson StroboFlip tuner because my other tuners would not respond to
a note long enough or accurately enough to satisfy me. It costs about $200 and does more than I'll
ever need. I also use it to tune guitars.
?Reading the StroboFlip takes some getting used to but it's a good tuner and extremely accurate,
although this tuner will not do everything that a strobe tuner will, such as tuning to harmonics. The
S-Flip comes with one of those Korg clip-on mics like I always had to use with the other tuners, tho
the internal mic usually makes it's use unnecessary.
Long story short, I think u should try the Korg CA-30!
ron - if anyone can tell me how to post on AOL without it inserting question marks, pls. lemme know.