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Best Tuner for a 40 string pedal harp

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  • #158892
    Sue Mann
    Participant

    I have five portable tuners, Seiko, 2 Korgs, and a Intelli, but none tune the lower or upper three strings on the Petite 85 pedal.

    #158893
    catherine-rogers
    Participant

    Maybe it’s your pickup. What are you using? If you’re using just the microphone built into the tuner, that’s not enough to catch the extreme highs and lows.

    #158894
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    And if you do have a clip-on pickup, sometimes you need to move it for the top strings.

    #158895
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    What Barbara said.

    I use a Peterson Virtual Strobe tuner with a clip on tuner pickup. It has no issue with the lower strings at all, but for the top two I need to move the clip right onto the tuning peg of the string right below in order to get a good reading.

    #158896
    andy-b
    Participant

    I also find that plucking the very highest strings with a nail makes the tuner read the note easier.

    andy

    #158897
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Hey, Tony, do you have iOS4 installed? I installed the istrobosoft update after that, but the display doesn’t strobe anymore for me, although I can see the numerical readout of how far out the string is. Is it working for you?

    #158898
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    Barbara,

    Yes, I am running IOS4 and after I updated it also updated the strobosoft app and it works fine for me. Both the strobe display and numerical readout both work.

    You might try removing the app, restarting the phone and then reinstalling. That sometimes works for me when I have a misbehaving app.

    #158899
    unknown-user
    Participant

    Boss TU 12 tuner -has both indicator lights and a meter – connected to a soundboard pickup on my concert grande

    #158900
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Thanks, Tony. I’ve done that and restored my ipod and all and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Ah well, I have cleartune, too.

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