Snark SN-5 Tuner for Guitar, Bass and Violin (Black)

So easy to use, great for a beginner My wife wants to learn to play a guitar so she bought a used one and it was out of tune. we went to our local music shop and had the strings replaced and tuned. It cost 28.00. When I went to pick up the guitar he told me that new strings will need tuned often until the strings get broke in. I immediately looked for an electronic tuner in the shop and they all ranged from 15.00 and up. I came home and jumped onto Amazon and started reading reviews and settled on the Snark. It arrived…

Snark problems resolved by using better batteries. I have two Snarks and within short order, they both died. One had been in use for almost 2 years, the other only a couple months. I replaced the batteries but they both just stayed dead. I was contemplating writing a poor review of both but kept putting that off, finally, I googled the problem “snark tuner not working” and the first result in the list “Snark Tuner Tomfoolery…when a battery may not be what it appears to be…” matched my problem exactly. The author of the post,…

Dead simple to use, but a challenge to clip onto violins… First, the downside (why it lost a star): I purchased this to tune a rather cheap violin that I bought to try violin and see if I enjoyed it (if not, hey – photo prop!). For what I paid, I knew I wouldn’t regret it as long as it could clip to the violin and was accurate. But that’s the downside of advertising as a violin tuner – the pegbox of a violin is drastically different from the headstock of a guitar or bass guitar. In the end, I ended up clipping it to the bridge of the violin…