The online tuner
failed me again on Wednesday morning, so later on I tried to find an actual
download of tuner software so I could have something more dependable. There was
a free one in Google apps but when I clicked to download it I couldn’t find it.
I looked at various lists of tuners that were available and typed their names
into the Pirate Bay search window. I tried downloading one called “gStrings”
but nobody was seeding it. Finally one simply called “guitar tuner” came
through. It turned out though to not be chromatic like I wanted. It only
produced the tones for each string.
I went for a bike ride in the
afternoon under beautiful but threatening clouds. I rode up Westview north of
St Clair to Tiago and then cruised east to Victoria Park. From there I
travelled south, exploring all the side streets that sloped west to Glenburn as
far down as St Clair.
I decided to use the washroom once I
was on the Danforth again but I missed the first Starbucks, the second one had
no free post rings for locking my bike and in the third on they’d just cleaned
the loos so they wanted the bleach to settle before they let people use them. I
walked east to the Black Swan and felt itchy as soon as I got inside.
There were a couple of fast riders
on the College bike lane on my way home. I couldn’t get past them, though I
wasn’t too far behind.
I had pasta with Alfredo sauce and
mushrooms for dinner.
I downloaded a second guitar tuner
but that turned out not to be chromatic either. Finally I found an app called
AP Tuner and that was chromatic. I found it very complex at first though, with
all kinds of numbers that I didn’t understand. I kept tuning my guitar
according to the needle being at zero and yet the guitar was still out of tune.
In the end I figured out that the column to the right of the needle was highlit
on the string the program though I was trying to tune and when it was off it
was because my string was tuned out of the range of the note it was supposed to
play.
The program always opens with a registration window but there is an
option to not register and a note that says one can use the software as long as
one wants.
So I finally had a chromatic tuner
to use as a backup when I ran out of batteries for my clip-on.
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