Sabine Musical Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Charles G Crampton

Gary J Miller

Doran M Oster

An electronic tuning device has selectable width tuning ranges wherein selected pairs of the LEDs in a single row of LED's are activated, such as being turned on, blinked or flashed, so that the spacing between each activated pair of LEDs indicates the width of the tuning range during a range indicating mode. The sensing of a fundamental frequency of an input tone causes the operation of a corresponding LED in the row of LEDs to indicate the nearest note along with in-tune and out-of-tune conditions.

Tuner with variable tuning window

An electronic tuning device includes a display with a single row of LED's corresponding to musical notes wherein the sensing of a fundamental frequency of an input tone causes the operation of the corresponding LED to indicate the nearest note. Additionally the LED is operated in manner, such as blinking proportionally to the variation from the note and/or producing different colors, such as green, red and amber, to indicate in-tune and out-of-tune conditions. A double back adhesive rubber pad can be used to removably mount the tuner on an instrument, so that the device can simply pulled off the musical instrument to make it ready for its next use. The rubber pad serves to attenuate high frequency mechanical vibrations of the musical instruments thus improving the accuracy and versatility of the unit. In one embodiment, the display is mounted externally on the musical instrument while the tone sensing circuitry is mounted inside the musical instrument such within the sound box of an existing guitar.

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Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Charles G Crampton