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On 5/24/2019 8:31 AM, TimR wrote:
Which brings up another question: how stable are the cheap ubiquitous electronic tuners? Every musician I know has one, they run less than $20


They're accurate, but most don't have good enough resolution to get
right on pitch, but, as we say in folk music, they're good enough for
folk music. They're of no use when there's a fixed-tuned instrument and
everyone else has to tune to that. That's where a Strobe tuner or
something that displays cents off pitch is useful.

I use a phone app called Pitchlab, and there are several that have a
strobe-like display or meter that let you get closer than just the note
readout changing from red to green.

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