At 01:50 AM 6/17/2008, you wrote:
>I use a KORG Guitar/Bass Tuner GA-30 which should be within your
>price range, and only very, very seldom have any problems with the
>indicated frequency changing on a string. I pluck each string with
>a guitar pick while tuning. I would also recommend your tuning
>wrench have the longest arm you can get so that small changes in
>pitch can be more accurately made.
>George Polkowski
>Stuttgart, Germany

If you can find one (they were discontinued a while back) the Korg
DT-3 is a great tuner. It is stable, accurate and has a Hz readout
mode that effectively almost doubles the readout resolution. They
show up on Ebay once in a while.

Or, try the Korg DT-4. It looks a little odd with its "strobe (not
really) display, but it works well and costs under $50. I bought one
at Evart last year because it was so different and found that it
locks onto a note faster than any other tuner I have used. So fast,
in fact, that Cindy uses it for fiddle practice to check notes as she
plays them. One side benefit of the strobe type display is that you
can easily see if you are sharp or flat even if you can't see the
display very well. The LED pattern "rotates" when you are not
exactly in tune and it is very easy to see very small degrees of "out
of tune". One caution though... I think the DT-4 is one of a small
handful of tuners that does NOT reset to A440 when you turn it
off. If you accidentally change it, it stays that way until you
change it back.

Paul


Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, MI USA
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