Tuners

[Pat Eisenberger]

It’s finally time for me to buy a new tuner. Does anyone have a favorite? I imagine that there must be all kinds of new gadgets, bells and whistles out there now!

[barbara-brundage]

Do you have a smartphone or ipad? There are plenty of apps now and it saves having to carry a separate device. For iOS I like cleartune and Peterson’s iStrobosoft, and I would guess there must be similar options for android phones.

[tony-morosco]

My favorite is my Peterson Virtual Strobe tuner.

I also use the Peterson tuning app Barbara mentions on my iphone and ipad. Very convenient. I also use another app called Cleartune on my iphone that I like a lot.

And I have a little Korg tuner that I really use for my guitar, but it works alright with the harp in a

[john-strand]

Boss TU-12 – I always use it with a contact mike – I also have one of those fancy Petersen VS-1 strobe tuners, but frankly, the whirling strobe makes me dizzy and they are hard for me to read – the Boss with a contact mike will read everything on my harp except the top four strings – I find them on Ebay at a pretty good price.

[steven-amazeen]

If you have an Android phone I highly recommend gStrings.

[kreig-kitts]

I use the iPhone ClearTune app and it works wonderfully. Without a microphone it picks up the highest strings more easily than my Korg with a mic did, but if you need to tune around others who are warming up, a microphone tuner would be much better (I think you can use a mic with Cleartune, but I don’t have the need enough). Barbara has written about those with phone/pad apps

[Pat Eisenberger]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a smart phone yet. I’m afraid of the monthly fees being too high, but I haven’t really looked into it. As it as – being that I’m older than dirt – this is the first time I’ve ever felt the need for one!

So does a smart phone qualify as a harp accessory? Would it be appropriate to discuss monthly fees and phone sound quality for the different companies in this thread? (I really like my Verizon service…)

[barbara-brundage]

Hi, Pat. Well, if you don’t want the phone part, there’s always the ipod or the ipad. I just have a dumb phone and those.

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