My preference is for an analogue needle meter (as large as possible) and I back this up with a digital display 'needle' meter which also displays cents. Hope that this will help any would-be 'meter maids!' sorry Beatlesįully agree with your post. Would a nail manufacturer producing 4 ins nails ship to +/- 0.0005 of an inch? or even have the capability (in-line) to discriminate at this precision? In engineering we establish tolerances and choose then calibrate instrumentation to be consistent to the precision and accuracy levels appropriate and required. some meters drift as batteries decay, I always work off a transformer, unless away from my baseĪccuracy through out the range, appropriate accuracy and consistency. Precision/ repeatability, even under battery power.
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Hands free operation: as stated by others, concertinas are two handed to sound, as are some tuning rig set ups
I also like the analogue display because it is both numeric and positional, as you 'nudge' a reading closer to a target value
Stability and visual clarity of the display: the ability to give a steady readout at any point along the range, I like an analogue 'reed' -out ( ) because the needle damping helps with this. Range: a Bass goes down to 43.6 Hz (F1) a piccolo 4186.0 Hz C8, and especially the sensitivity of the microphone/ pick up at these extremes.
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and who can file a reed to that level of precision on a trial and error basis? Tuning a concertina is not like tuning a violin where you can turn an infinitely variable knob until the error goes away!
I think that people get obsessed by finite degrees of accuracy, +/- 0.01 of a cent OH -WOW, big deal! but the ear cannot distinguish +/- 1 cent. I keep looking an new meter options, not that there is anything wrong with mine, but it will need replacing/ upgrading one day. So for serious work I use my good old Conn, which uses vacuum tubes to drive the strobe motor. I have a nice Korg digital tuner that reads cents offset directly, but its readings tend to jitter around, eeven during a steady tone from an organ or tina. It also requires the offset knob to be nicely calibrated in cents so you can read it afterwards (which the digital unit under discussion apparently does down to 0.1 cent, excellent). The only difference in this digital device is that you push and hold buttons, rather than twist a knob.īut no, you can't just sound the note and expect the cents offset to show up on its own.Īs someone mentioned last year, this can be a big inconvenience if you need both hands to sound the note and can't spare one to tweak the offset knob. I do this all the time when tuning my crank "monkey" organs. Then read the cents sharp or flat off the knob scale. What they are saying is: THis device works the same as the good old Conn genuine strobe tuners, where you keep sounding the note, and twist the pitch-offset knob until the pattern holds steady. I emailed Turbo tuners(twice), and this is what they told me. Does this answer the question posed by David about whether or not this shows the cents off? I guess I'll go to the link and see if that clears this up. Unfortunately, I am rather ignorant of all this technology, and I am not sure exactly what he is saying.
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You can also configure the tuner to show the frequency in Hertz if you so desire.įor more information on this, here is a link to our on-line users manual that describes this feature: 1 cent increments, and this value is shown on the display along with the note. These buttons change the cents offset in. On the Turbo Tuner, this is done with the CENTS+ and CENTS- buttons. When using a strobe tuner to measure a note, you sound the note, then adjust the cents offset of the tuner until the pattern in the ring of LEDs is stationary.
We have sold several units for this purpose so far, and from what I have heard, they worked out very well. These are the replies:Īnswer to first question- " The Turbo Tuner works very well for tuning accordion reeds. The first time I asked if the tuner was suitable for concertina/accordian reed tuning, the second time was to ask them if the tuner displayed the cents, as brought up earlier in the thread.
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