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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on December 26, 2011 at 8:37am

go  out and buy the most expensive  tuner on the planet  .. make sure  you   overpay  alot  for it ..     then  toss it in the garbage  , and count it as a learning experiance . that you  dont really need them for cbgs  ;-)  

 

Permalink Reply by The Professor on December 26, 2011 at 8:48am

Its a good point and quite revealing. I have not really used a tuner on a CBG, I just had a bit of Christmas cash available.

the anonymous pick said:

go  out and buy the most expensive  tuner on the planet  .. make sure  you   overpay  alot  for it ..     then  toss it in the garbage  , and count it as a learning experiance . that you  dont really need them for cbgs  ;-)  

 

Permalink Reply by David L. on December 26, 2011 at 9:06am

I like the clip on tuners.  They come in a basic model like this one

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-Clip-On-Digital-Electronic-Acoustic-G... but you are limited to the usual EADGBe with the option of dropping down two half steps in the tuning.

The other type is more flexible and they give you the option of guitar/bass/violin/chromatic so you can tune to what you want.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-LCD-Clip-on-Digital-Acoustic-Bass-Gui...

Cheapest option is off ebay from HK/China but the post can take up to 6 weeks (though often better than this).  They work well on all the guitars I have -  sometimes you have to readjust the position on the headstock to pickup the note but this is never a problem and takes seconds to do.  The better ones let you select microphone rather than the clip to pickup the sound if you wish so if you have a CBG with too small a head to clip to you can still use it.

 

If you have a computer with a microphone AP tuner is a free shareware program which as well as the usual tunings lets you set up your own note presets in the menu.

http://www.aptuner.com/cgi-bin/aptuner/apmain.html

Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on December 26, 2011 at 10:02am

Inexpensive and highly recommended. Happy Holidays Enjoy, Keni Lee

http://www.snarktuners.com/

Permalink Reply by Seaman Jay on December 26, 2011 at 11:46am

Red Snark tuner! 

Tested with CBG

Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on December 26, 2011 at 12:54pm

Prof,

 

I have a 15 year old analogue Seiko that I rarely use any more, for which I originally paid $60-$80.

 

I have used lots of these frequency-adjustable, chromatic, clamp-on tuners, from a variety of manufacturers, over the last 5 years, on my acoustics, electrics, and now, CBGs. They all tend to be in the $20-$40 range, and all generally work pretty well: various incarnations of Planet Waves designs; Korg; a few others that are back home in Saudi whose names I can't remember...I just picked up a Snark, and am gonna get a couple more. I just used one of them a few days ago to help clarify a tuning question I had for Keni Lee, which led to a most interesting discussion on tunings.

 

 Go ahead, buy a couple or three; they're almost, but not quite, cheap enough to be considered, almost, disposable.

Permalink Reply by Andy Eight Spades CBG on December 26, 2011 at 2:17pm

If you have a smart phone go to your market and search for guitar tuner app. The one called gstrings is free and gives you options for many instruments along with more options than you probably want.....but they are there if you need them. Your phone becomes a tuner. You'll never be without one again!

Permalink Reply by Lonman on December 26, 2011 at 4:48pm

mine is a walmart first act. I would get another if this breaks down.

Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on December 26, 2011 at 6:22pm

The Snark tuners can be hard to read in bright light, though.  I like the black ones with a backlit display better. 

Plus, I broke my Snark in about five minutes after I got it out of the box.  The swivel neck is kind of fragile.  Now it is held together with contact cement.  >:-(

I wanted to like it!  It is red!

Permalink Reply by blufloyd on December 26, 2011 at 8:50pm

Red is good but I got one at Guitar Center in a little box on counter and whatever one  Mr Gitty sells plus the old analog and the newer analog and I got a lot of stuff. The currency really is worthless, you know.

Permalink Reply by Ray Davies on December 26, 2011 at 10:28pm

There are quite a few online tuners out there. Obviously not much help if you're sat in a field with no PC, that's when the electronic tuner would be useful. For home tuning by ear I've found the two below quite good. Umpteen variations of tunings and for different instruments. Worth a look.

Gieson Online tuner

Get tuned Tuner

Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on December 26, 2011 at 11:50pm

Forget digital, this is the one...cheap, compact, reliable, no batteries required.

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