I own an Intellitouch tuner and found it next to useless with my lute. >Re: Ronn's tuner. He may have had something like the Intellitouch >tuner clamped on the peg head. A quick search on eBay for 'lute >tuner' in musical instruments should get you a look at it. It would >surprise me if WoodWind & BrassWind didn't have some of these, too. > >Cheers, >Steve > >timothy motz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I also have a Korg CA30 and have found it to be quite satisfactory >and within my price range. I bought a clip-on pickup that plugs into >the input jack on the tuner, which I've found to be very helpful, >especially when my teacher and I are tuning up right before a lesson. >The tuner no longer picks up his lute when I'm trying to tune mine. >I just clip the pickup on the peg-head, although it works equally >well if I just clip onto a peg key. > >The CA30s are cheap enough that I will probably buy a second one to >keep in the case with my new lute when it's finished. > >I remember at the 2002 LSA conference sitting slightly behind and to >the side of Ronn McFarlane as he performed (it was a packed room) and >seeing red lights blinking on the back of the peg-head of his lute. >It took me a bit to figure it out, but he must have had a very >compact tuner attached to or embedded in the peg head, which I >thought was really cool. I wonder what kind it was? > >Tim >> >> >>---- Original Message ---- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >>Subject: Re: Tuner Recommendations >>Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:53:30 -0700 (PDT) >> >>>Hi Rob, >>> >>>I have three Korg CA 30 tuners-- one in my trumpet gig bag, one in >>my horn case, and one for the lutes. I've found them less >>susceptible than some of the others, (particularly, I believe, my >>quick tune), to harmonic spoofing. Its range runs from C1 to C8. >>It's among the smallest at about 60mm wide, 103mm long, and 15mm >>thick. It will calibrate from at least A=415 to A=460 and has a >>standard 1/4 inch jack in which you can plug a tuner pickup. It will >>also give you a tone for an A or a Bb. Finally, it's among the least >>expensive of the bunch at about USD 20 here in the States. >>> >>>A good source for them can be found at www.wwbw.com. That's The >>Woodwind & The Brasswind, a large music store in northern Indiana. >>You can search on Korg CA30 in the upper left hand corner of their >>home page. You can also read reviews by folks who've bought these >>tuners. Most seem to have given it a five (out of five) star rating. >> >>> >>>Best regards, >>>Steve Ramey >>> >>>Ramon Marco de Sevilla wrote: >>>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 >>> >>>-- >>> > > > > > >--
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