Cancer has deafed my right ear and redused my left. So what I do have left is having a hard time w/ tuning. I've played guitar for a while. A tuner is my sulotion there. I got a mandolin for christmas. I got an electric pitchpipe w/ it. But I'm having trouble tuning it to standard pitch. Is there a mandolin tuner? Like a giutar tuner w/ a dial on it? I appriciate any help or suggestions anyone can offer. Thanks,
I have a Sabine MT9000 chromatic tuner/metronome/tone generator. Works on my banjo as well as my electric guitar. I wouldn't see why it wouldn't work for a mandolin or anyting else. 30$
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I use the Intelletouch tuner for all my fretted instruments (guitar, mandolin, banjo). Works fine on all of them. Sometimes has a problem with the low E string on the acoustic guitar, but I just use the harmonic in that case.
I also use the Itelletouch for my guitar and mandolin.
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I use my little Korg chromatic tuner to tune my guitars and my mandolin. Standard tuning for mandolin is GDAE (top strings of guitar in reverse) with each pair of strings tuned to the same note (unlike a 12-string guitar). Here's a website, which may or may not help you with your hearing loss, but there's other neat mandolin stuff there, too!
http://s89015200.onlinehome.us/mandolonline/index.html
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Thank people for the usefull info. I have tried using my guitar tuner. I will keep working with that.
