Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

Probably within cents but stability is also a consideration. The old units used LC circuits for temperature and voltage stability. It works only as well as the components.

I have more confidence in my good digital units. An advantage of the new ones is that they can store alternate tunings, even micro tunings. They can be used to tune any instrument such as a sitar. I don’t use that feature a lot though.

My go to tuner for over a decade now is my Stroboflip; before that it was my (still owned) DTR-1, of which I used to have two.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I like it! Where do i get one?

Perhaps the boffins at either the Control or Kaos agent supply stores can help. I’ve seen surplus shoe phones on ebay. Chinese knockoffs.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Peterson has a strobe clip-on tuner for $59 that I'm likely to get. Somehow I like the strobe effect the best for tuners. I guess nostalgia about the good old days..

I have one of the stroboclip units from Peterson. It locks on well. The only drawback is that is requires a watch type battery but it lasts a long time. They also have inexpensive tuning apps for the phone/pad. I use those when I want a tuner fast.

They have a new floor model that looks interesting. It’s on my list.

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[beans-on-toast]

My dad and I toured the Deagan factory in Chicago, while there to pick up his first set of vibes. I think this would have been 1971 or 1972...

I was fascinated to see an old guy tuning stacks of anodized aluminum bars for the vibraphones.

He had an extremely crusty-looking old Conn strobe tuner behind him, and used a penknife to take little shavings off the underside of the arch. The penknife had been sharpened so many times that the blade was down to a sliver.

Most of the bars were dead-on within three or four cuts. Amazing combination of muscle memory, consistency and experience.

That tour must have been interesting. The sort of memory that lasts a lifetime. Seems that the company is long gone. Yamaha currently owns the patents and trademark name.

I saw something similar with a church pipe organ. A master tunes each pipe with simple tools and an electronic tuner. I imagine that years ago they used tuning forks. They aren’t as accurate as a tuner, ding or soil them and the tone changes. It’s a delicate process, even temperature affects tuning.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I have one of the stroboclip units from Peterson. It locks on well. The only drawback is that is requires a watch type battery but it lasts a long time. They also have inexpensive tuning apps for the phone/pad. I use those when I want a tuner fast.

They have a new floor model that looks interesting. It’s on my list.

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I've been looking at that one too. Wife Carey says the headstock mounted ones look cheap onstage. She likes the floor models, which I put on my amp head for better access.

 

[GonePlaid]

I've been looking at that one too. Wife Carey says the headstock mounted ones look cheap onstage. She likes the floor models, which I put on my amp head for better access.

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[beans-on-toast]

I've been looking at that one too. Wife Carey says the headstock mounted ones look cheap onstage. She likes the floor models, which I put on my amp head for better access.

Given the price difference, you’re getting a whole lot more with the pedal model.

 

[GonePlaid]

Given the price difference, you’re getting a whole lot more with the pedal model.

Most o' the places we play, I barely have room for my octaver. And I put a button expander on it 'cos I'm so close to the mic I can't look down at it, so a floor tuner would be, what's the word?-oh, yeah. Useless.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Most o' the places we play, I barely have room for my octaver. And I put a button expander on it 'cos I'm so close to the mic I can't look down at it, so a floor tuner would be, what's the word?-oh, yeah. Useless.

Put it on top of your amp?

 

[GonePlaid]

Put it on top of your amp?

The amp's on a stand angled toward my ears. Plus, I'm right against the amp so I can't turn around to look. I can check the clip on while I'm playing.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Put it on top of your amp?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Most o' the places we play, I barely have room for my octaver. And I put a button expander on it 'cos I'm so close to the mic I can't look down at it, so a floor tuner would be, what's the word?-oh, yeah. Useless.

Not every product is for everyone. I find clip-ons are distracting.

Put it on top of your amp?

That approach allows you to use a shorter cable which is better.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The amp's on a stand angled toward my ears. Plus, I'm right against the amp so I can't turn around to look. I can check the clip on while I'm playing.

If you clip it on your mic you can use the tuner to guide for your vox.

Someone would clean up with a vocal autotuner built into a mic.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

That tour must have been interesting. The sort of memory that lasts a lifetime. Seems that the company is long gone. Yamaha currently owns the patents and trademark name.

I saw something similar with a church pipe organ. A master tunes each pipe with simple tools and an electronic tuner. I imagine that years ago they used tuning forks. They aren’t as accurate as a tuner, ding or soil them and the tone changes. It’s a delicate process, even temperature affects tuning.

My dad was always learning new instruments, and there was often an interesting journey of discovery involved.

One of the ways he financed his GAS, was to find a manufacturer, and sign up as a Canadian importer for them. Sometimes, he was unable to afford one for himself until he'd imported and sold a few.

Along the way, I got to tour the factory where Artley flutes were made, play a clavichord and harpsichords from Neupert, experiment with an early Chapman stick and one of the early Hagstrom synth guitar prototypes, etc.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It puts on a show, like analog meters do.

I should very much like to see a light show on stage! Wow!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Went from the Conn tuner all the way beyond the jet age to the rocket age to the present with a clip-on tuner. I think it's fugly to see on an instrument so it on top of the amp when done.

Thursday plugged into some new stuff and the power went off during a pretty substantial storm. Thirty hours later, the power's back. Spectacularly un-eager to see what became of the ice cream.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Thursday plugged into some new stuff and the power went off during a pretty substantial storm. Thirty hours later, the power's back. Spectacularly un-eager to see what became of the ice cream.

Oh God!!! Not the ice cream!

 

[shadowtippy]

Went from the Conn tuner all the way beyond the jet age to the rocket age to the present with a clip-on tuner. I think it's fugly to see on an instrument so it on top of the amp when done.

Thursday plugged into some new stuff and the power went off during a pretty substantial storm. Thirty hours later, the power's back. Spectacularly un-eager to see what became of the ice cream.

Always eat the ice cream when the power goes out.

 

[Al Kraft]

Perhaps the boffins at either the Control or Kaos agent supply stores can help. I’ve seen surplus shoe phones on ebay. Chinese knockoffs.


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I'm okay with a flip phone that will fit in my sock, I'm saving up to buy a Cone of Silence.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'm okay with a flip phone that will fit in my sock, I'm saving up to buy a Cone of Silence.

At government rates, I imagine that you're going to have to save for quite a while for a modern CoS shield!