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kestrellHotPaw Talking Tuner
$0.99
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/talking-tuner/id421065079?mt=8
Kes: I bought a pre-owned iPod Touch a few months ago, and so far, this is the first app which has gotten me to use it on a regular basis. It is very simple to use--just opent he app and it goes--and does what it is designed to do, no more. The voice is clear, even with the hearing impairment in my left ear.
As far as I am concerned, this app alone justifies the cost of the iPod Touch. The one problem I have with it is that it seems to go back and forth on whether my high E string is too sharp or too flat by the smallest increment. I use a beginning guitar CD to tune the high E, but I am also learning how to tune the guitar to itself, so this isn't a big problem.
Description: A hands-off, sound-activated, talking musical instrument tuner. Talking Tuner uses built-in speech synthesis, so it does not require that VoiceOver be enabled.
With the Auto-Speak switch turned on, Talking Tuner will listen for a note to be played, and then, after waiting for the end of the sound (so as not to talk over it), will speak the note name, and how many cents sharp or flat the end of the note is estimated to be.
More information at AppleVis
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/music/talking-tuner
$0.99
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/talking-tuner/id421065079?mt=8
Kes: I bought a pre-owned iPod Touch a few months ago, and so far, this is the first app which has gotten me to use it on a regular basis. It is very simple to use--just opent he app and it goes--and does what it is designed to do, no more. The voice is clear, even with the hearing impairment in my left ear.
As far as I am concerned, this app alone justifies the cost of the iPod Touch. The one problem I have with it is that it seems to go back and forth on whether my high E string is too sharp or too flat by the smallest increment. I use a beginning guitar CD to tune the high E, but I am also learning how to tune the guitar to itself, so this isn't a big problem.
Description: A hands-off, sound-activated, talking musical instrument tuner. Talking Tuner uses built-in speech synthesis, so it does not require that VoiceOver be enabled.
With the Auto-Speak switch turned on, Talking Tuner will listen for a note to be played, and then, after waiting for the end of the sound (so as not to talk over it), will speak the note name, and how many cents sharp or flat the end of the note is estimated to be.
More information at AppleVis
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/music/talking-tuner
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Date: 2013-07-08 10:19 am (UTC)Thank you for the description and the link, I will try this out next time I am tuning. I agree about the pitch pipe: the timbre is so different that it is difficult to transfer the note to the guitar, but I can hear the similarity when the guitar is aleady mostly in tune. Still, not one of my three favorite ways to tune a guitar. There isn't anything like a piano in the house--do you think some sort of small electronic keyboard might do the trick? I expect anything cheap enough to be in the toy piano category I am thinking of would not be perfectly pitched either.