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Banjolele tuner
A free banjolele tuner in your phone's browser: the banjo ukulele in G C E A or the old D tuning A D F♯ B, one string at a time, with a needle and the cents. Nothing uploaded.
Bridge on a drum head, held by four strings. Mika checks the twelfth fret before he trusts it.The microphone closes when you stop, when all is in tune, or after half a minute of quiet. Nothing is recorded.
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The strings in Hz
C tuning (G C E A)
| String | Note | Hz |
|---|---|---|
| 4th | G4 | 392.00 |
| 3rd | C4 | 261.63 |
| 2nd | E4 | 329.63 |
| 1st | A4 | 440.00 |
Other tunings
| Tuning | Notes | Hz |
|---|---|---|
| D tuning (A D F♯ B) | A4 D4 F♯4 B4 | 440.0 · 293.7 · 370.0 · 493.9 |
At A4 = 440 Hz; the reference switch above moves them all.
How to tune
A banjolele is a ukulele neck on a small banjo body, tuned like a ukulele: G C E A with the G above the C. The 1920s ukulele books mostly wrote for D tuning, a whole tone higher, A D F♯ B; it's the second switch, for the old songbooks.
The bridge isn't glued: it stands on the drum head, held only by the strings, and slides if you retune hard or change strings. If the open strings tick but the twelfth fret plays sharp or flat, the bridge has walked; move it until the octave matches. Head tension changes the tone too: a slack head sounds dull and the notes die fast.
Then play something
The notes you tuned can go into Brumm as a short melody over a beat. Hum a line on top and it becomes an instrument.
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