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Believe it or don’t, until electronic tuners became available in the ‘70s, people used to tune their guitars by ear. Not everybody was that good at it. You even used to hear “out-of-tuneness” on hit ...

If you’ve ever played guitar, you’ll be familiar with today’s standard chromatic tuners. They’re about as unglamorous as little electronic gizmos can get–cheap plastic things that light up when you’re ...

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[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to 1.5 cents which ...

The sound and feel of modern music was changed forever in the late 1990s when Antares launched its Auto-Tune pitch correction technology. As well as putting some life back into flat performances, the ...

He didn’t play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him a small console piano, he could hear it was out of tune. A hands-on kid who took his ...

In our noisy, shrill world, Evan Tublitz is on a mission: to bring a little more harmony, a little less discordance. Advertisement Article continues below this ad One piano at a time. He is a ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — He didn't play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him a small console piano, he could hear it was out of tune. A hands-on ...