Piano tuner software open source

Everything can be easily controlled from the graphical touchscreen on your mobile device. Follow the link below and adjust the pitch, level, and tonal character for each of the 88 notes! This application is made for people with advanced piano tuning skills, so if you want to use it with ease, make sure you know everything pretty well. Having been in development for over 10 years, Piano Tuner PT1 is based on a sophisticated algorithm. It provides you with high-quality tuning for different kinds of pianos.

You can see the precise pitch frequency and deviation from the target frequency for any note on your screen. According to the people, already using this app, it is extremely accurate and easy-to-use with real-time pitch analysis. All you need to get your piano professionally tuned is to follow the link below and download Piano Tuner PT1 on your device!

This is by far the most popular app on Google Play for tuning the piano. This is a very simple app but that what makes it so easy in usage. As you launch it for the first time you can see the following sections in the main menu: play piano, instructions, help, and more apps. For tuning your piano, you just click on the first section, then tap on the keys and compare the sound with your own piano. By the way, you should have the musically trained ear to do that correctly.

To be honest, it is not very informative and by googling this you can find far more information. Other sections are irrelevant. By the way, the app includes tons of ads — and this is the main drawback here. This app is based on the method of entropy minimization. This means taking into account the individual parameters of your own musical instrument and adjusting the tuning process according to them. So, if you want your instrument to be tuned extremely accurately, this application is what you need!

There are three simple steps in tuning your piano. Peace,play, enjoy your music. Thanks for this, I got my piano for free like many others. I certainly didn't want to spend money on someone to tune an old, free piano and my one needed doing badly. I did mine using this guide 2 months ago and it still sounds good. I am a piano tuner, and I have to at least mention that beginners should only try on old pianos they don't care about destroying.

Reply 3 years ago. I think destroying is a bit of a strong word. I would think the worst that could happen is breaking a string or stripping a pin. Being out of tune is a temporary and fixable condition.

But I would agree that beginners may not want to start on a really nice piano. If you have any suggestions on how to properly set the notes beyond my basic explanation, I would welcome improving the article.

I am a piano technician, but I only tune aurally. Since you seem to have success in tuning your own piano, you might wonder why some of us keep advising against DIY tuning. Our career is to take good care of these instruments, experience matters and the range of knowledge is more than a DIY guide.

You welcome suggestions on setting pins, I don't even know where to start because there are many aspects to consider. Hammer technique and stability setting pins require a lot of practice ideally with feedback from mentors. Technicians spend years tuning hundreds and thousands of piano to obtain these skills, so it is really hard to imagine tuning a piano with just a short guide. It is certain that, beginner tuning would not hold tuning for long.

Depending on how one uses the tuning lever, one might strip the pins rapidly, or damage the pinblock. Then the piano would really not hold a tuning, even with proper technique. I suppose this is a way to "destroy" a piano. Some people use tools other than tuning levers to turn the tuning pins, this risks damaging the tuning pin surfaces and might prevent the piano from proper tuning. I understand that most people want to save the tuning cost, but the price to repair unnecessary damages is often way higher than a few quality tuning service.

Question 3 years ago on Step 5. I'm having trouble getting samples of good quality. Im using a condenser microphone through an audio interface into my pc. I have tried 10 times and nothing seems to work. Any advice? Answer 3 years ago. In my experience with Entropy, it is okay if not all the notes have a green quality indicator. Some will be better than others; in particular the upper range tends to be much worse.

If you're having trouble getting it to recognize the pitches correctly, there is a way to manually tell the program which key you are recording. Another potential problem could be background noise. If people are talking or making noise nearby, the program will struggle to identify the keys played and you may lose some accuracy. I may be able to give you more specific help if you can tell me more detail about what behavior you're seeing in the program.

I'm also a piano tuner. They all have their pros and cons, but Entropy was by far the most difficult to use and produced the least desirable tunings. I'm a piano tuner as well. It beats listening for beats! To tune your piano, you will need the following equipment: tuning hammer mute s computer with an internal or external microphone, or a smartphone Make sure the tuning hammer fits the pins well, so that you won't be stripping them as you turn them.

Choose a note with 3 strings to tune. To start, the ones in the middle of the keyboard are easier. Decide which string to use as a reference to tune the other strings to.

Mute one of the strings see picture. This is done so that you only hear the string you're tuning and the string you're using as a reference. Place the tuning hammer on the tuning pin for the string you are tuning. The handle should be pointing roughly parallel to the strings toward the inside of the piano. Pull the hammer to bring the string slightly sharp of where it should be. For the basic paid version it did everything I needed and was far less than the other professional tuners.

While it took me about 6 hours to do my first tuning, it was a lot of fun and ended up sounding great! There are definitely things one needs to learn with experience, such as setting the pin and tuning unisons, but this app and all of the great documentation and video walks you through the whole process.

Anthony the developer was very responsive and helpful with a few questions I had. I bought the 1 year pro subscription to do a pitch raise on my in-laws very out of tune piano, and it worked very well.

I was first discouraged that it took like hours to do the first rough pass, but the second pass a week later went way faster like half the time as I starting to get the hang of the order of the tuning pins and the much smaller adjustments for fine tuning. Interesting is that after the first rough pass, the bass strings sounded very shallow and I was really bummed, then I pulled up PianoMeter again to check and the mid range was all about cents too high either from the accumulated change of tension across the piano or me just tuning it slightly sharp while focusing too much on the numbers.

So after tuning it that second time, the bass strings resonated beautifully again. I very much recommend this app. I totally recommend this app. Tuning a piano is NOT like tuning a guitar, violin or any other instrument.

This is a tool specially made for tuning uprights and grands and does a great job at being a tuning aid. Before you attempt to tune your piano PLEASE be familiar with the subject of tuning as there are many subtleties to it. When using the app, tune octaves starting from A4 with the tuning curve unlocked. Every piano is different and you must establish the tuning curve by ear rather than assuming the default works with you.

Even as you are tuning - be sure to always check the extremes of the piano with your ear.