[sci.electronics] Electronic Guitar Tuners

acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) (05/11/91)

The other day I borrowed a friends electronic guitar tuner to tune my long
unused six string and was quite impressed with its ease of use.

One clicks a switch to the setting corresponding to the string to be tuned,
then hold the tuner near the string while plucking it.  A needle swings back
and forth while you tune the string and centers when you are there.

While JC Penney's carries such a tuner for only $30.00 or so, I thought it
might be a fun project to try to build one of these creatures.  An alternative
would be to make use of my PC.  Does anyone out there have any suggestions
as to where to begin?

						Andrew MacRae