![]() ![]() It's not ideal but I'm yet to find a phone app which is consistent I basically tune roots to 442 and then recalibrate based on an estimate of 4 cents per Khz.so I'll drop the tuner to 439 to find 12cents below 442 for instance. i believe the standard guitar tuner such as my korg is pretty accurate when it indicates the note is bang-on pitch, but less so when it comes to measure degrees of cents away from the target pitch. This is a shame as I was looking forward to expected greater accuracy which would enable me to be somewhat more specific when tuning. Perhaps my korg is not as sensitive as the app, but I couldn't tune using a reference which was giving a different result each time I played a reed so i gave up. Moving around the harp, I found the phone app was inconsistent all over, while my guitar tuner was stable. I left the reed as it was, and checked an octave split, came back to the reed, this time the app said it was flat. ![]() I tuned a reed, moved to another reed, came back to original reed and found the app now told me it was sharp. I ran it side by side with my korg ca 40. Ive just been trying to work with this app but I'm afraid I could get no consistency from it. Transposition from your different harmonica keys, and shaping (cents +/-) the chords and octaves, will be handled by iStrobe! #PETERSEN STROBE TUNER FREE#If iStrobe reads positive (sharp #) of zero, your next move will be to remove metal from the free end of the reed. *Under Tuner Settings (not shown), select "Display All Sharps", "Display Whole Cents", and Concert A 442.0 Hz.Īs you play the pitch (note), and iStrobe reads negative (flat b) of zero, your task will be to remove metal from the rivet end of the reed. Once you have purchased the harmonica package, you can always change it later. Have fun with it! ![]() Select “Sweeteners” and purchase Harmonica ($20)Ĭhoose your favorite harmonica voicing from a list of ten choices, for example, S20|Hohner 1896 Marine Band/Special 20. Once you have selected your favorite harmonica tuning for example, the Hohner Special 20, you simply target tune each of the 20 reeds to display the pitch (note) as ZERO-as in “0”.įor iTunes, go to your app store, then search Peterson iStrobe ($9.99) into the search bar: HELP"! I suggest you try the Peterson iTunes smart phone app- with harmonica sweetener. #PETERSEN STROBE TUNER PLUS#For those of you frustrated with those pesky harmonica tuning recipes, "CENTS: Plus +, Minus. ![]()
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