How Do You Tune A Mandolin With A Guitar Tuner?
Electronic tuners can be a musician’s best friend. They take the guesswork out of tuning. In environments where it is difficult to shut out background noise, you can get perfect pitch on every string. Because they have a complete range across several octaves, chromatic tuners can be used for any instrument. Guitar tuners are more limited. They are preset for only the six notes produced by the open strings on a guitar. The only open note in common to a guitar and a mandolin is high E. That’s the best place to start tuning a mandolin with a guitar tuner. Turn the tuner on. If the tuner has manual selection, set it to high E. Use the pick to strike a single E string on the mandolin. Adjust the tuning peg on the mandolin until the tuner shows the string is at the proper pitch. Strike the second E string. Tune it in the same manner as you adjusted the first string. When both E strings are in tune, striking them at the same time should produce a clear E without harmonic beats. It should soun
