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| I was looking for a guitar tuner recently and thought I understood them, after all how complex can they be? But while looking I noticed that some were described as chromatic tuners and some were described as digital tuners and others were just tuners. What's the difference?
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| A Chromatic tuner will identify every note in the scale.
A Guitar tuner just identifies the EADGBE notes of a guitar in standard tuning
A Digital tuner can mean almost anything including
1. It's got numbers (digits) as it's display
2. It convert's the guitar's analogue signal into a digital signal
3. You operate it with your digits (fingers)
4. There's actually nothing digital about it but the manufacturer
thought it would sell better if he included the word digital
A Tuner can also mean almost anything, including those funny little pitch pipes things that we had to use before electronic tuners came along.
A Tuna is a fish
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| A Tuner can also mean almost anything, including those funny little pitch pipes things that we had to use before electronic tuners came along.
I have a set of those kicking around somewhere! Always thought they seemed like a silly idea tuning forks seemed a far more practical solution to tuning.
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| | Always get chromatic. That way you can tune to any note. For instance if you put a capo on the neck it's good practise to retune with the capo on (capos tend to pull the guitar sharp). Most tuners will be digital. I had an analogue tuner from way back that had a needle that centred when the note was true. It only tuned to concert pitch notes. I took it along to a guitar workshop one time and the young bloods looked at me as if I was one of the Wright Brothers. Sadly it died recently but it's battery connectors live on in my Ovation Breadwinner. By the way, Ray. Shame on you! You should know you can't tuna fish!
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| Not so, MITJ! A fish's skin is covered in scales.
. . . . . . and while we're on the subject, any newcomer to guitar playing should be aware of the Obligatory Old Joke (even older than Bazouki Man's old jokes) that must be used after the first number at any gig. It's only after the first number that you discover that the guitar that you carefully tuned in the dressing room has gone out of tune due to the heat of the stage lighting and your own hot, sweaty fingers. So, while the rest of the band waits impatiently, you twang away trying to get six strings to sound musical again. When you've finished, you turn to the audience and say:
"Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that was our second number, a little Chinese instrumental entitled 'Chu-Ning'."
Ray
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