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Rating: - A Good Tuner
My fiddle mentor uses this tuner and I liked it. It is a fine tuner to use, though you might have some difficulty getting it to easily fit all violins. It will only adjust out so far. Also the lever on my tuner seems stiff and tough to "slide open". Nonetheless, all the tuning functions are great and it is a real treat to be able to tune your instrument no matter what noise and clatter, or even other instruments being tuned are present--the tuner "hears" only the string you are striking.

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Rating: - Nice tuner, but it does have a problem.
Overall, I love this tuner! It doesn't have one of those aggravating needles (that just seem to keep bopping back & forth ... without really telling you when the string is in tune), or a set of lights that keep flashing, flat to sharp & sharp to flat, over & over again (again without really telling you when the string is in tune). But this tuner does have a problem. It rarely ever reacts when I try to tune the 6th string (low E). I've read where other people have the same problem, so I know it isn't just my tuner. But, I just play the A note at the 5th fret while tuning the 6th string, and I get the job done just as well.

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Rating: - If you have a problem with the low strings....
I have bought three of these, and am about to buy another. All still work, I give them as gifts, sometimes.

I have had no problems with the tuner. It performs quite well, but....
I had to make a modification. I play steel acoustic, nylon acoustic, electric standard, and electric bass. The low strings were hard to tune until I removed one of the rubber pads in the clamp area. The pads are there to give a better grip. I removed the stationary pad since, duh, rubber is a sound isolator. Direct contact with the guitar allows tuning my Yamaha bass low E string with no problems at all. If you are worried about scratching the finish on your baby, put on a piece of masking tape.

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Rating: - Works for mandolin, not guitar or banjo
I bought one of these yesterday to use on my guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Today it belongs to our band's mandolin player. Why? Because it will not pick up the low-D on a 5-string banjo, or the low E on a guitar, regardless of where I placed it on the headstock. It picked up all strings on a mandolin. The high G (5th string) on the banjo would display for about one second when struck but then would disappear. On the positive side, unlike the Intelli MT500, this tuner is very accurate and is FAST - no lag in displaying the offset so you can tune accurately and quickly. I just wish it were more sensitive.

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Rating: - Outstanding tuner! Great for a new musician.
Coming from someone who is new to musical instruments, this tuner is outstanding. I have seen others that are more complex, and have more features that I will likely never use. To simply tune my instrument, this tuner is tops. It is as easy as clipping it on (a padded clamp protects your instrument from scratches), playing a note, and looking on the screen to see if there are three arrows on either side of the note. The display will look something like this if you're playing a C and it is in tune:

>>>C<<<

When there are two or less arrows on one or both sides, you're sharp or flat, so keep tuning! I use this on my ukulele, and it is nice and small and portable, making it great for when you're on-the-go. You can tune in a noisy room as well, even when the acoustics are crummy -- making it a better investment than a pitch pipe or similar gadget.

Excellent value for an excellent product!

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