Pianometer

scherbakov.al

I would like to express my admiration and gratitude to the creator of the piano tuning application "Pianometer". I have been using it since its inception. It works great, it's superbly designed, it's stable, and it doesn't require frequent interaction with the interface. It is economical, minimalistic and extremely effective. It has flexible settings for creating a custom setting style. In general - I recommend!

dore_m

scherbakov.al I'll second that. I use it too.

David B

scherbakov.al

It's nice to know there are products available to use if I ever acquire an acoustic piano in my lifetime. Thanks for sharing.

God Bless,
David

Anthony

You're welcome! I'm glad you've found it useful. Thank you for the kind words

Anthony W

Marc Plays Piano

scherbakov.al Agreed. I use PianoMeter also and it is fabulous.

bwv543

Do you use the Plus, not the Pro version? If yes, do you measure your piano before each tuning?

I am looking for a decent Android tuner app and there is only - I think so - TuneLab and you can use it freely, but with long waiting times and the full version is too expensive.

dore_m

I don't measure again unless it's a new piano.

RIP

bwv543 Do you use the Plus, not the Pro version? If yes, do you measure your piano before each tuning?

I use the free version and if you tune only one piano is fine and you don't have to repeat the measure each time as @dore_m says.

Moreover, I have the dampp-chaser piano-life-saver, and that makes tuning almost irrelevant. In fact, to all those who consider tuning a unbearable chore and argue for the digital "because it never goes out of tune", I'd say "try the dampp-chaser" (but I won't since life today is that anything one says becomes the start of an argument, and I decided that I hence prefer to keep shut).

Anthony

+1 on the dammp chaser. I installed one in my piano in January and then tuned it in February and it's been remarkably stable. Normally the humidity swing between dry February and humid May throws the piano out, but I haven't noticed it this year.

On the installation, it was recommended to drill a hole through the bottom of the piano for the electrical cord or to route it out the top or above the base board and around the side. I didn't like those options so I went through the corner of the soundboard, which isn't acoustically active.

Re: tuning apps…If you don't mind my biased recommendation, I think that for tuning your own piano with Android, the free/trial of Tunelab or "plus version" of PianoMeter are the most straightforward+affordable way of doing it. I've seen some people tune using the "free" version of PianoMeter as well, just matching up the blue dots to the tuning curve. (That seems tedious to me, and I don't exactly recommend that.) Also, if you don't mind a little tedium, there is also the Entropy app, which is free if you can find it. (I think the main website is down now, and I couldn't find it on the app/play stores last time I checked, but there are probably some APK files still floating around the internet.)

melody

scherbakov.al

Thanks to you, I noticed Pianometer a few years ago, bought it, and I don't regret it at all. Thanks to the author of the program and to you!