$3.99 tuner

**oldwave maker** · Apr-29-2014, 1:50pm

This increasingly deaf dumb and blind luthier is enjoying the cleartune gizmo-app on my hand-me-down bench ipad, tried a strobe type but it picked up way too much info. NFI

**kkmm** · Apr-29-2014, 2:31pm

gString is a free tuner app. However, I still prefer the clip on tuner as it works even in noisy or dark environment.
My clip on picks up the vibration from the headstock and display the note on its color LED screen. It has many different settings: chromatic, guitar, violin & mandolin, ukulele and bass.

**Jim Garber** · Apr-29-2014, 2:50pm

What??!! No one has come up with a way to clip your iPad to the headstock of your mandolin?

Bill: It is great to see that you are now in the 21st century. I am still in the 19th, methinks.

**Bill Snyder** · Apr-29-2014, 11:02pm

Originally Posted by Jim Garber

What??!! No one has come up with a way to clip your iPad to the headstock of your mandolin?

Bill: It is great to see that you are now in the 21st century. I am still in the 19th, methinks.

That is why he has over 20K posts on an online forum, Soundcloud account and a Facebook page.

**kkmm** · Apr-30-2014, 12:12am

How do you stick the iPad (or Samsung tablet) in your pocket ?
Must be a very big pocket.

**Petrus** · Apr-30-2014, 10:38pm

That's cool. I use PitchLab (which comes free with about a half-dozen different "skins") or else a clip-on Snark (which, btw, has a really crappy ball-joint attachment, where the little ball at the end of the stalk attaches to the back of the tuner by means of three flanges; one of them broke off about a day after I got the thing. It still works, with the two remaining flanges just barely sufficient to hold onto the ball joint, but it falls off at the slightest nudge.)

**oldieone** · Apr-30-2014, 11:15pm

Contact Snark. I think they will send you a new one. Snark has great customer service.
Oldieone

**sebastiaan56** · May-01-2014, 3:27am

And I just got a new tuning fork :-)) but I train my ear with an app called Karajan.

**kjbllc** · May-01-2014, 7:17am

i have that and I also have the same towel you have !

**oldwave maker** · May-01-2014, 10:28am

While this is indeed a dedicated benchtop tuner ipad for one of the 5 workbenches in my big robot mandolinstamping factory, I had no problem clamping it to my mando once I removed a few of the superfluous string posts from the peghead. Not wanting to open a separate can o' worms, but when installed, it seems to increase sustain to boot!