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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: SOS Strobe tuner


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Justaused2b - Posted - 03/14/2008:  09:27:20

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...r?sku=210066

Has anyone tried this...it says it is "specific for guitar" but I wonder if it would work on a banjo...just putting it out there to see if anyone has any experience with this.

Thank ya'll

know when to hold um'...know when to fold um'

mike_cabinet - Posted - 03/14/2008:  09:33:06

Bought one for my brothers birthday a couple of years ago. He told me later it was more of a novelty item and kind of a pain to use because you have to be looking strait at the strings and tune it from exactly the 12th fret. I never tried it on the banjo.

"you might as well give your son a ticket to hell as give him a five-string banjo!" (mountain minister) Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo.

eruannu - Posted - 03/14/2008:  09:49:07

works ok but is a pain too easy to leave on and wear down the battery nice in noisy situations i only give it one lonely lopsided star in my ratings

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein

mefloyd - Posted - 03/14/2008:  12:17:27

quote:
Originally posted by Justaused2b

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...r?sku=210066

Has anyone tried this...it says it is "specific for guitar" but I wonder if it would work on a banjo...just putting it out there to see if anyone has any experience with this.

Thank ya'll

know when to hold um'...know when to fold um'

As the web site indicates:

NOTE: The S.O.S. Strobe Tuner only works with 6-string guitars in standard tuning and its lights may be difficult to see on some clear nylon classical guitar treble strings.

The technical reason behind this is because the frequency at which the two out-of-phase LED's oscillate is the same rate at which the chosen guitar string is supposed to vibrate. When the string vibrates at the same frequency as the LED's, the LED's will appear to be stopped.

Assuming you're going to tune the banjo to open "G" tuning, there is no frequency to correspond to the "A" string on the guitar and only one "D" string on the guitar compared to two "D" strings on the banjo. Also, there is no "E" string on the banjo.

I suppose you could fret the appropriate string on the banjo to correspond with the guitar notes, but you would have to be at the same octave as the guitar strings for this device to work.

All that being said, for guitars, I would think this device would work very well.



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Justaused2b - Posted - 03/14/2008:  13:23:58

Thank you all

know when to hold um'...know when to fold um'

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