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My personal opinion is no, unless you make whistles or are trying to waste 25 bucks or so. In that case, you’re better off wasting it on another whistle or two. Most whstles aren’t tunable, and even those that are you tend to tune to someone else and not to an absolute scale.
I have a couple that are really useful with the dulcimer, but as far as I can recall I only used one once with a whistle - to prove what I already knew - that it was badly out of tune. Oh, and one other time when I bought an olf American souvenir whistle at a garage sale. It didn’t sound right so I eventually used the tuner on it. Again, I was right. It was pretty well in tune with itself - but the bell note was keyed to B natural rather than Bb.
Forget the tuner. If you want a useful gadget, get a metronome.
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I like the ones that have the option of using an earphone so you can use it while recording.
Hi Cranberry,
I’ve seen a tuner with a metronome built in, I can’t remember what make it was though but I’ll try to find out. You can get a free tuner to download from Audio Phonics (AP Guitar Tuner) and a free Metronome, downloadable from Music Utilities.
Cheers, Mac
'Berry,
I bought one of those tuners from the Whistle Shop. For the price it’s OK but I have had others that worked better. I try to keep my whistles pretty close to the correct pitch. I play along with MP3 and midi files alot. I also think that hearing your instrument in the proper pitch all the time helps develop your ear for discriminating the relationship between pitches. I don’t know if this is really true but it sounds good so I’m sticking with it.
There are lots of good metronomes out there now-a-days. I have a Seiko that is about the size of three credit cards on top of each other. It does the normal metronome stuff plus it can emphasize one tone for triplets, couplets, etc. It can make noise or not and even has a mini headphone jack. I’ve had this one for 10 or so years so there are probably even spiffier ones out there now.
Mike