Cherub Clip-On Ukulele Tuner

I'm probably pretty much tone deaf but felt it was time I learned to play an instrument so ordered a ukelele and, totally essential, a tuner.The uke arrived before the tuner so I spent my first day perusing internet sites explaining how to do this and playing correctly tuned strings to demonstrate what they should sound like. Try as I might, I couldn't match them and when I thought each string was 'nearly there', it still didn't sound right. Thankfully, the tuner arrived and my sanity was restored.On clipping it on, at first it didn't recognise any string which confirms that I am not one of those musically-gifted people able to tune by ear and match pitches or tones played on a website. So, I simply tightened the strings to what seemed like a reasonable tension and, lo and behold, the Cherub tuner now recognised them and identified them. Illuminated LEDs showed whether I needed to tighten or loosen the strings until a green LED showed, at which point it was magically in tune.So, having spent 3 days frustratedly struggling with internet sites and pitch pipes, this little gadget guided me through the tuning process from scratch in under 10 minutes. Now, because it's used daily and the uke is almost in tune each time I use it, the process takes less than 2 minutes. It really couldn't be easier. It's a wonderful little gadget and I'd still be floundering and playing a painfully out of tune ukelele if I didn't have it.So, if you're a beginner like me and don't have a particularly musical ear - buy it. You won't regret it and it will save a lot of time and even more frustration!!

I'm fairly new to playing the ukulele so I wanted an easy to use tuner. Some tuners just display the note that you are playing, which is alright, if you know which octave you want to tune to and which string should be which! This tuner however knows which string you're playing and then indicates whether the string is too tense with a + sign and a number indicating how much by, and a - with a number if its too loose. It indicates this by using a light to show which string you're playing, and then another to show how in-tune it is. When the light turns green then you're all set.A few notes: Sometimes it will light up green, then flicker to red as the string you played quietened down. That doesn't mean you're slightly out of tune, it just means that as the vibrations got weaker the tuner was listening to re-verb (sorta like an echo) rather than the actual sound the string made when you played it, so don't worry. It is very sensitive. Also, if your string is wildly out of tune then even if you are playing the 4th string it'll "recognise" it as the 3rd. Just keep messing with your tuning pegs until it begins to get close to how it should sound, and then it'll start recognising it as the 4th string so you can tune it.And remember folks: it's better to tune UP to the note, than to tune down. So get it so that you are in the - below the green light, then tune up.

This is a great tuner, simple to use and you can conveniently attach it to the end of your ukulele. Once you figure out how it works it is really simple. The only reason I have taken one star off is that I had no idea how to use it initially, I never played a string instrument before and am a complete beginner in music...and the tuner came with no instructions whatsoever. I was lucky to find a youtube video with someone explaining how it worked, and I found an online manual for the tuner, but that wasn't very helpful. So one thing that would add to this product would be some clear and simple instructions either online or on paper coming from the manufacturer. Maybe they just forgot to enclose one with my tuner, but highly recommended other than the lack of instuctions 😊

I find this tuner easy to use. Although the on/off switch is a bit fiddly and there were no instructions. Plus a switch on the side say if you tuning to C or D.The two rows of lights were helpful. One on the left to say which string I'm tuning and the one on the right to say whether I need to go up or down.This good for me as I am not a trained musician and can not tune by ear. I am not being told, when I'm tuning up after restringing that I am currently at A# when I need to be a C, whereas some players will understand this information, I don't. I just watch the lights and take it slowly.As my knowledge progresses I might upgrade but at the moment this tuner is a blessing.

tiny little box that clips to the end of the neck of the ukelele, can tune to key of C or D- i guessed and went for C after some reading on the net. Works really well. You have to realise that unlike a guitar the strings on a ukelele do not simply get higher up one at a time- the 4th string is in fact higher than the 3rd and the second and first are higher still. Once I worked that out it was plain sailing.As you can probably tell I am completely un musical and probably almost tone deaf- a tuning device was therefore mandatory for me to have any chance of replicating some of my favourite tunes. £5-6 is a great price for this device and it came next day as ordered.Only down side and it is an extremely minor one is that the device does not rotate 360 degrees around the clip, it just means you must be gentle when angling the device so you can read it in case it is the wrong way round, so as not to break the join between the clip and the computer bit.Recommended

I can see a situation where some people would send this item back as being defective. If you have no experience with these clip-on tuners, don't expect an easy time of it - there are no instructions, and you're very much left on your own to stumble your way through the process.if it helps others whose A string registers as a C string, you just have to keep tightening and twanging the string until you fear the whole kit and caboodle will explode in your face. Eventually it will get there. Come on, Cherub, what would it cost to write a couple of lines on a piece of paper and enclose it in the box. Oh, and while you're doing that, tell people where you've hidden the C/D key switch, would'ya?