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Piano Tuner

Piano Tuner - 1.9

strobe tuner & partial analyzer for piano & other instruments

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Version 1.9: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 1.9
Release Date: 2007-03-16
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 1.9): 0
Downloads (all versions): 657
Price: $99.00

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Piano Tuner is a 12-note chromatic scale strobe tuner and partial analyzer application that utilizes sound input devices such as built-in microphone, line in, and iSight.

Strobe tuners are extremely accurate compare to regular tuners with a needle or LEDs. The slightest difference between the actual pitch and the ideal pitch accumulates over time and appears as a movement on the strobe tuning meter.

Piano Tuner can be used by someone who wants to learn how to tune a piano by using a tuning lever and also be used by a professional piano tuner to help the tuning process.

You can now use the Partials window to figure out the cent offsets of the stretch table for your piano, or you can use the Partials window alone to tune your piano directly without a stretch table.
  • Tuning: 12-note chromatic scale.
  • Temperaments: Customizable (Ã?â??Ã?±50 cents). Supports Scala Scale (.scl) files.
  • Stretch: Customizable (Ã?â??Ã?±50 cents).
  • Meters: strobe, cent, and hertz.
  • Range: 9 octaves. C0 (16.352Hz) - B8 (7902.133Hz).
  • Accuracy: Ã?â??Ã?±0.1 cent with the cent readout. Ã?â??Ã?±0.1 cent @ 440Hz with the strobe tuning meter.
  • Calibration: 349.000 - 499.999Hz (0.001Hz steps).
  • Display: 88-key piano keyboard.
  • Sound Back: plays the reference tone (sine, triangle, sawtooth, or square wave) at the ideal pitch.
  • Hilbert Scope: visualizes harmonics impurity.
  • Partials: displays the cent offset of each partial.
  • Speech: speaks the current tuning status and the partials analysis information.
NOTE: A piano requires tuning, voicing, and regulation at least once a year by a professional piano tuner in order to keep it in a good condition.

CAUTION: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TUNE YOUR PIANO WITHOUT LEARNING HOW. IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS.

What's new in this version:

  • Added the speech features.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
  • Universal Binary

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Piano Tuner CommentaryGood helper - Version: 1.9, 3/18/2007 09:42AM PST

fablau
I have a Yamaha baby grand that needed a full tuning every 4 months, so every time I had to pay $90-100 to have a professional tuner tuning my piano (so spending a minimum of $300 a year). After one year, I got sick (too much money!), so I bought a good piano lever, miscellaneous material to tune the piano and tried this little program. Well, I am a professional violinist so my hear is very good to understand if a note is high or low, but sometimes I get confused and this little program helps me to understand right that.

Now I am keeping my piano tuned by adjusting those single notes every two weeks and it's great.

Be careful though! To tune a piano is not so easy and immediate, you must be a good musician first (to know the 5th basic tuning), have a good hear and be careful to turn your string pins VERY slowly.

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Piano Tuner Commentary$99 !!! - Version: 1.5, 3/14/2006 07:12AM PST

mtcon
You've got to be kidding!!
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Piano Tuner CommentaryStrobe Tuner = $10 - Version: 1.0.1, 4/25/2005 10:28AM PST

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RockPoet
If $99 is out of your budget, and you don't need a specialized piano tuner, try Strobe Tuner (currently 1.0.2) from the same developer, Katsura. $10 shareware.

www.katsurashareware.com

or

http://homepage.mac.com/katsura/shareware.html
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