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He didn’t play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him a small console piano, he could hear it was out of tune. A hands-on kid who took his ...

Following a successful Kickstarter last year, a combination tuner, string winder and metronome is now available to buy. There's been a Roadie in my gig bag since the first iteration landed 10 years ...

If you’ve ever played guitar, you’ll be familiar with today’s standard chromatic tuners. They’re about as unglamorous as little electronic gizmos can get–cheap plastic things that light up when you’re ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) He didn’t play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him ...

Mozart had it; Leonard Bernstein had it; even Jimi Hendrix reportedly had perfect pitch – the ability to recognise a musical note without a reference tone. Now it seems that orchestral tuning may be ...

When orchestra members tune their instruments before a performance, it almost always sounds the same. That’s because across the world, most orchestras tune to the same A note, using a standard pitch ...