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No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

Tuning a guitar is one of the most important skills every guitarist should learn. If your guitar is out of tune, even the best songs will sound off. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry, tuning your ...

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Chromatic, clip-on, pedal, polyphonic, pipe and fork ... if you want to tune up your guitar, you have plenty of helpful options to choose from. A little over 4 years ago something a little different ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

If you play guitar or another string instrument, one of the thankless tasks you do before you play—and in between songs—is getting your instrument in tune. There are several ways you can do this: You ...

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I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...

In a perfect world, guitars would never go out of tune and their owners would never have to stop in the middle of a performance to retune them. However, a number of factors, such as humidity and ...

Keeping a guitar in tune is not easy, especially when your ears aren’t good enough to perfectly match the pitch between strings. Luckily, there are a lot of budget-friendly tuners out there capable of ...