[Harp-L] Digital/Electronic Chromatic Tuners

["Don Z" <dzeller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nate,
I used an inexpensive no-name electronic Japanese manufactured chromatic tuner I bought fromn Kevin's Harps (now Best li'l Harphouse) for years before it finally died with passable results.  It had a needle that indicated cents of pitch which is essential for harp tuning. I saved this link for info and pricing on most of the currently available electronic chromatic tuners: (to me some of the higher end Seikos look good but I haven't tried them)
http://store.musicbasics.com/chromtun.html
After months of shopping for a replacement, I ended up eBaying what I found to be a GREAT tuner: the Peterson V-SAM "virtual strobe tuner".  This thing is accurate to 1/1000 of a semitone.  Yes more expensive (I think I ended up paying around $200) but the difference in accuracy was immediately noticeable both with my harps and resetting intonation on my guitars, which I was shocked to find was way off based on settings made with the old tuner.  I've talked to harp Customizer Jimmy Gordon about tuners and he (and presumably Joe Filisko and Richard Sleigh) use either Peterson or Conn strobotuners (and their highly trained ears) for reed tuning.
Hope this helps!
Zig