Are the little electronic clip on mini tuners any good? I am thinking about picking one up... Any recommendations?
We keep a tuner in the gig bag of each of our (seven) ukuleles. In addition, we keep one handy in the cockpit and my harmonica gig bag, plus we have given away a handful of them to people we jam with regularly. (I'm a bit of a tuning Nazi and giving friends a tuner helps soothe away a bit of my tuning fascism.)
Brands we have are:
Pono P-5
FZone FT-800
Intelli INT-500
Eno ET-3000 (the one in the UU Store)
They all work great. My least favorite is the Eno, but that is only because it is somewhat larger than the others. We purchased them from a variety of places, paying between $17 and $28 (that was in Puerto Rico, and it was painful to pay that much).
If we ever get together to jam and you're a bit out of tune, i'll probably end up giving you one.
The one thing I dislike with the Kala, is sometimes mine powers-up in D tuning, and it takes a moment before I realize it.
I'm not quite understanding this, Paul. Why does the tuner have settings for different tunings? Doesn't it just read out whatever note the string is tuned to? I tune my soprano to D tuning just reading the note called out by the tuner. What am I missing, here?
Now that I have begun to experiment with other tunings, would such an option be worthwhile for me to invest in? I could use another tuner, anyway.... Oh, no. ETAS!!
This is a big help for me, too. I had an old tuner I got with my first guitar yeaaaaars ago, but served very well for all my instruments. It suddenly has gone missing on me, and I've turned my place inside-out trying to find it. (It just vanished and I have no clue what happened to it! Very odd.)
It looks like I'm due for a new tuner anyway, and you've all narrowed the selection down for me considerably!