I have one. I have had it for a few years. For piano tuning, it is not a choice.
For just about everything else, it is wonderful. The built in chromatic and preset tunings are very good, the response is exceptionally good (and a contact microphone with some felt makes it very very good, even in the middle of a riot!) There are two kinds of programming: you can make your own presets (tuned to the strings of a lute, for instance) and you can set the temperament. Open string tunings are all changable (except Guitar, which you can't change.) I had no trouble putting my 7-string viol on, but for the theorboed LSO I used up two adjacent tunings, six on one and seven on the other. Temperaments are by cents and tenths of cents. There's a limit, each temperament can only have 12 pitches defined, and they are defined as displacement from ET12. However, if you're into larger number temperaments (or intonations) you can do as I did with the open tunigns: use two or more to cover all the notes. This is not the most convenient way to deal with ET31, if you have to. But it's a lot cheaper than most strobe-tuners, it works like a charm, and once you get used to the maxi-minimalist interface (minimalist means only 3 buttons and one LED lamp!) it is very easy to use. They aren't kidding about muting strings you aren't tuning, and plucking near the middle. Although not deathly sensitive to overtones, ST122 will latch on to them if they are strong enough, and you can mistune strings which are not perfectly harmonic. I've used mine with: guitars basses viols, all sizes recorders flutes clarinets cellos, violas and violins pennywhistles (some of them are tunable!) electronic wind controllers and synths lutes and that theorboed LSO William On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Bruno Correia <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anybody experienced the Turbo tuner ST 122? > > > > [1]http://www.turbo-tuner.com/st122-index.htm > > > > I've been thinking about the Peterson SC1, but it has only 1/6 > meantone... > > > > -- > > Bruno Correia > > > > Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao > > historicamente informada no alaude e teorba. > > Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela > > Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.turbo-tuner.com/st122-index.htm > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
