Ooops! But you will need a microphone. Meritline sells one for $2 that
is essentially a little button that plugs into the earphones slot.
http://www.meritline.com/apple-mini-microphone-mic-recorder---p-37453.aspx
You don't need the phone. The Cleartune tuner is downloadable to any
iPad Touch. You may be able to pick up a used 1st or 2nd generation
for fairly cheap at this point.
Sean
On Aug 5, 2011, at 6:55 AM, R. Mattes wrote:
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:22:13 -0400, Garry Warber wrote
Thank you all... I only discovered electronic-tuner handiness
from my grandson when he used his app on his I-phone last month.
I personally do not have a cell phone, by choice.
But you can use the 'cell phone' just as an excellent digital tuner.
And with Android systems in the range of 90$ plus 4$ for ClearTune
you're
still at appr. half the price of a Violab tuner.
So, if I'm getting this, any 440 tuner would work by tuning every
course a full step "low", then do a mind trick of telling
yourself it's regular lute tuning? For example my lute would
become, low to high, C, E-flat, F,B-flat, E-flat, G, C, F, which I
would then convince myself it's still D, F, G, C, F, A, D, G in
a=392? Wow... Perhaps just staying at a=415 is just fine...
Kind of: 392 (well, 391.9...) is one tempered whole step below 440.
But I find it anoying to transpose while tuning. And that -only_ works
for equal temprament. In pythagorean the whole step below 440 is at
384 etc.
HTH Ralf Mattes
Garry
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