>For anyone with a Palm device, there is a program called Musician's Tools. It has a tone-emitting tuner, a metronome, and a Circle of Fifths function. Your Palm device has to have a speaker for most of this to work, but I loaded it on my smart phone and it's handy. Not a substitute for a real tuner, but good enough in a pinch.
Tim > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >Subject: RE: Tuner Recommendations >Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:40:20 +0100 > >>Rob, >>it is also worth looking at the Peterson tuners which, although more >expensive, >>have a number of features that make them useful. I keep on dropping >my Korg >>OT-12 and the case is now almost in pieces. The Peterson V-SAM II >has a rubber >>'boot' that certainly protects it if it drops on the floor. Peterson >also make >>a clamp to hold the tuner onto the music stand. The virtual strobe >tuning is a >>delight and I think my lutes are now far better tuned than before. >The >>Metronome is full-featured. It also has a function that allows the >metronome >>sound to be turned off after a certain number of beats. The VSAM II >has a >>number of pre-set temperaments and provides two extra channels for >the user to >>programme in their own offsets. The stated accuracy of the Peterson >VSAM is >>higher than 'needle' or 'LED' tuners and the Peterson website has a >number of >>articles that explains the relevance of this for practical purposes. >I have no >>connection with Peterson, BTW. I am delighted with my VSAM II. (good >for rock >>lute!) >>Charles >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ramon Marco de Sevilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: 04 April 2005 03:06 >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Tuner Recommendations >> >> >>What tuners have you had experience with or would you recommend? >> >>Korg, Arion, Sabine? >> >>Thanks! >>Rob >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >>
