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Please visit our sponsors: Andrew's Tips: Chris Hamilton on using the Korg CA-30 Tuner Christopher Hamilton is a Professional Grade piper, a EUSPBA adjudicator, instructor, moderator at the BobDunsire.com forums. Below, Chris explains how to use the Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner to tune bagpipes. Korg CA-30 • Instructions for Pipe Band Tuning by Christopher Hamilton The Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner The Korg CA-30 tuner, while not designed for bagpipes, can be used for tuning pipe band drones and 'Low A's quite effectively. Here is the method that I've developed over the past few years. Select one bagpipe in the band to be the 'master'. All others will tune to this one. Once the chanter is well set, tune the drones of the master bagpipe.

Martinez Automatic Chromatic Guitar, Bass and Violin Tuner. SKU: MT-505 The Martinez MT-505 Automatic Chromatic Guitar/Bass and Violin Tuner operates in manual. Sep 24, 2008 Got an electonic tuner and can't figure it out? Help is on the way! This video will show you how to use your tuner, and will offer some advice if you don't.

Make sure the drones are perfectly in tune with Low A. Turn on the tuner using the Power button.

Initially, the standard frequency will read 440 Hertz (Hz), or cycles per second, at this point. This does not mean that B-flat is 440 Hz, but rather that the B-flat is relative to an A of 440 Hz. Tansam.weebly.com For Takken 7 on this page. Therefore, the B-flat is 467 Hz. (this '+27' formula will tell you your absolute pitch of Low A with these things). Hold the meter up to the outside tenor of the well-tuned master pipe, and repeatedly push the Up or Down Calib buttons until the Green LED lights steadily (and the red sharp/flat lights stop) and the needle is locked at 0 (zero) cents (the deviation from the master pitch).

In the right corner of the screen the note 'heard' will be displayed. This will typically be 'Bb' (B Flat).

The number displayed in the left corner of the display screen (say 448) is of the note Low A (which is akin to Bb) relative to standard A. So if it's 448, you add 27 and know your Low A pitch is 475 Hz. Now, if the note displayed on the screen says 'A', then the number on the left side will typically be in the 470s range. If this is the case, then you don't need to do any conversion mathematics. At any rate, the important thing is the calibration to '0' (zero). Note that unlike the CA-20, there are Up and Down calibrate buttons! The unit will calibrate from 410 Hz to 480 Hz.

Tune the rest of the drones to this frequency. There are two ways to do it. First, you can go around while the whole band is playing and do all drones to the meter. In addition, you can have each piper blow up individually, tune their outside tenor to the meter, then tune the middle tenor and bass to the outside tenor by ear (can be much faster). I use both methods so that I'm constantly tuning drones regardless of what the P/M is doing. Note that there may be cases where the chanter does not 'meet' the drones exactly. Skins For Winamp Player.

This can indicate a sharp or flat chanter, but minor variations are to be expected. A badly out-of-sync sound can point out a bad chanter. Make adjustments to the pitch as you play.