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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-03-12 01:02
Strobe tuners are much more expensive than "run of the mill" electronic tuners and are routinely used by guitar techs to set critical intonation. Shouldn't strobe tuners be used to best judge clarinet intonation, particularly if such interventions as tone hole cutting/adjustment are contemplated?
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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-03-12 01:34
Check out the Peterson web site--- they are a large manufacturer of strobe tuners. These tuners use a rotating wheel and the "stroboscopic effect" to accurately determine intonation. Piano tuners also routinely use strobe tuners. The Woodwind and Brasswind store in NYC (when it was open) had large Peterson strobe tuners in all the try out rooms.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-03-12 01:35
Check out this site for a photo of Conn's Strobotuner:
http://www.mts.net/~smythe/st-6.htm
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2003-03-12 02:00
John,
Thanks for the link.
Boy does that tuner bring back memories. Remeber the large StroboConn of the 1950s and 1960s that had all the wheels. You could play up and down the scale and try to stop the wheels. As I recall, there was even a way to change the key with some sort of side lever.
Ah, those vacuum tube days!
HRL
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Author: Bill_D
Date: 2003-03-12 19:55
It's not a strobe tuner, but I like this best of the many I've used, and it's free.
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~tuner/tuner_e.html
I like the idea of seeing the clarinet fingering, along with the tuning.
Bill
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-03-12 20:47
The scent of valve oil and minty cork grease... the warm glow of the Stroboconn... the wobbly music stands... oh, how I miss the old high school band hall.›
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