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Sn8 snark tuner violin7/29/2023 Twist the appropriate tuning peg until the bar graph’s highlighted segment is in the center of the Snark’s display and all will be right with the world. It displays the nearest letter for each note it discovers, and a bar graph to indicate how flat or sharp it is. The result of all this stealth is that the Snark can determine the pitch of a note really, really quickly. As such, it gets to ignore most of the ambient noise around it, which would confuse a non-contact tuner. Unlike traditional electronic tuners, the Snark listens to whatever it’s intended to tune through a small contact microphone embedded in the soft rubber jaws with which it grasps its subject instrument. It also works clamped to the bell of a sax – I’m pretty sure that’s what killed the last clamp-on tuner I owned. It took a bit of head scratching to find a way to clamp one to a fiddle – horizontally across the bottom of the peghead works nicely. While Snark makes a number of tuners which are ostensibly intended for use with specific instruments – a guitar tuner, a bass tuner, a violin tuner and so on – the SN-8 appears to care little for these distinctions, and happily tunes anything it’s affixed to. It’s so quick as to be clairvoyant, flawlessly accurate, impossible to deceive even if it finds itself tuning next to a 787 taking off and easy to read. The Snark SN-8 tuner, however, absolutely nails the technology. Clamp-on digital tuners have been among us for some time, and most of them work reasonably well.
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