Stroboscopic tuning device for musical instruments

Details Stroboscopic tuning device for musical instruments Stroboscopic tuning device for musical instruments

1976-05-06

1977-12-06

Tomsky, Stephen J.

Music

Accessories

Tuning devices

84454, G10G 702

Patent

active

040610713

ABSTRACT:
A stroboscopic tuning device for a stringed musical instrument that is mounted on the musical instrument adjacent to the strings to be tuned. A solid state circuit employs a frequency generator, such as a piezoelectric crystal oscillator or a tuning fork oscillator, to operate the stroboscopic light source at a preselected frequency. In the use of the device, a string is plucked, and when the vibratory motion of the plucked string is either the fundamental frequency or the harmonic frequency of the preselected operating frequency of the stroboscopic light source, the string will appear to an operator to be in a nonvibrating condition. At that time, the string is tuned or adjusted to the desired tone.

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patent: 3385153 (1968-05-01), England
patent: 3421402 (1969-01-01), Musser
patent: 3878754 (1975-04-01), Barnum
patent: 3952625 (1976-04-01), Peterson

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