Chris: Re: a decent chromatic tuner...absolutely perfect for across-the-lap
guitars.
I'm up here in Canada and I hardly get to use this computer to check my email
since it belongs to my daughter who's a school teacher and needs it perpetually
for preparing lessons et al.. But once in a while I do get to polish off the pile
of mail and glim the daily proceedings of the reso-guit list. Having said all
that, you got me checking on a good day. I think i have the answer to your tuner
query and you can pass this on to all and sundry if you wish.
I just laid out fifty bucks Canadian for a little deal that's about the size of
an hors'd'oerve: it's a clip-on about an inch by an inch and small enough to lose
( a big drawback). But wait! For any Hawaiian-style axe it's top drawer! I use it
for lap-steel and Dobro (R) and it makes the perfect dashboard! For regular
spanish guitar or mando, fiddle, ojnab (banjo) or other instruments, it works
incredibly well...but reading it presents a bit of a flipped over "upside down"
factor; a bit back-handed but easy nevertheless.
Just clip it on the end like you would an Intellitouch; it has a swivel head;
durable (within reason like anything else of course,); it has a lovely brilliant
green inchX inch VU-meter display marked in calibrated grads and cents which is
clear, bold and VERY visible for us boomers with failing eyesight and the
squints. It's electronic, driven by ONE ( the Intellitouch uses two) coin lithium
batteries which are available anywhere and it comes with a year's warranty. You
can actually SEE and read the little bugger in the dark or even use the LCD to
help you find the keyhole to your front door! It's that bright! Enough build-up.
It's a great device accidentally made perfect for us horizontal sliders.
The unit is:"PARKSON'S" (not "Parkinson's") CHROMATIC TUNER IMT-500; the
features are power/light; calibration; and flat (which I'm not really clear on
its function, but that's just me...); it has a nice wide spring-jaw (padded upper
and lower) which can get around most headstocks and bass-bridges. Comes with a
year warranty! $50 bucks! Made in Korea.
Chris, if I could find the little box ( remember Lowney's Cherry
Blossom??...that's about the size of the carton it came in) I could find my
nomenclature and maybe an email address for you. But if we can stock it in our
stores up here, you guys should have no trouble in your own retail outlets. The
lengthy description is to help whoever's helping you to help you find it no
problem. Plus, I tend to ramble a bit.
Good luck! Failing that, the Peterson VSII is an excellent investment for
anything musical, except that it's a megalith beside this little guy the size of
a kid's decoder ring.
Cheers!
"Hurricane" Mike Thompson
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