Microtuner

A microtuner is an electrical device or an audio program that can be used to tune musical instruments outside of the semitone tuning ( e.g. for microtonal music ). The expression is also understood to mean a mechanical tuning device for alto saxophones in which the sound tube can be extended or shortened telescopically by approx. Half a centimeter with an adjusting screw immediately after the mouthpiece, v. a. with saxophones from CG Conn. These appeared in the range for the first time around 1918 and were produced until the 1930s. Some saxophone producers in Europe (Beaugnier, Dolnet, Hüller, Keilwerth and others) copied this. Since this fine-tuning can also be done by plugging the mouthpiece more or less far onto the sound tube and this telescopic device represents a source of error (leakage), today's saxophones are consistently built without them.

See also

• Mood (music)
• scale
• Frequency counter

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Hardware mikrotuners

• ORIENTAL / WORLD SCALE MIDI CONVERTER
• FSU dynamic microtuning box
• H-Pi Instruments Tuning Box TBX1

Software mikrotuners

• alt-tuner VST plug-in (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• L'il Miss' Scale Oven (Mac)
• microtuner Max / MSP object
• Scala (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• Tobybear MicroTuner VST plugin (Windows)
• Tune Smithy (Windows)
• Mutabor (Windows, Linux, Mac, Atari)