This is a free online virtual tuner for the ukulele. All you need is your device (computer, phone) microphone and a browser. Simply ‘pluck’ one of the strings and it display the frequency, note name and a needle indicating whether it’s sharp/flat. There are no installations or downloads to do. You can even practise playing on a virtual string or tuning by ear by playing reference notes.
Tap the Enable sound button at the top of the widget to load the reference sounds. The button says Counting Up and then Sound on. Tap the Start microphone button to tune your instrument. Your browser will ask if it can access the microphone. Say yes. It changes to Stop microphone and the display switch to live microphone. Practice mode and the reference tones will also function without using the mic. No microphone audio is ever uploaded, just analyzed locally.
How to Use the Free Ukulele Tuner
Tap the Fullscreen button for the tuner to take over your entire screen. Click the same button (or press Esc) to exit fullscreen. Tap the question mark for a brief help panel.
You begin by selecting your tuning from the drop-down menu at the top of screen. You can select from these options: High G · GCEA (preselected on opening the app), Low G · GCEA, Baritone · DGBE, or D tuning · ADF♯B. Below that is a line called Four strings. It contains one button for each string, showing its number, note name, and target frequency. On High G they would be G4, C4, E4 and A4 in number order 4 down to 1.
Then pluck each string individually. Below, the tuner displays the note’s name and octave, followed by its frequency (in hertz). A meter runs from −50 ♭ on the left to ♯ +50 on the right, with 0 in the center, and a needle move as you pluck the string. A readout displays how many cents you’re off. And a message under the meter tells you what to do: “Tighten ↑” if the string is flat; “Loosen ↓” if it’s sharp; and “In tune ✓” if you’re close enough. If you’re within ±3 cents, the meter goes green, so you’ll know just when you hit the note.
The tuner will also ask you to pluck a single string when it hears nothing. By default, the tuner has the Auto string button on, so it works out which string you are playing by choosing the nearest string in your selected tuning. To just tune a specific string, tap its button. This then locks the target onto that string. It sounds the reference note for it and changes the label to show which note it’s locked to. Tap Auto string again to return to follow mode.
There are two sound options in the reference menu: Ukulele pluck is a real recorded ukulele sound and pure tone is an exact pitch for calibration. To hold the reference note while turning the peg simply click Repeat reference. This will make the reference note repeat over and over until you click Repeat reference again to stop. While a reference is playing, the tuner briefly pauses its microphone analysis so that it does not listen to its own speaker.
The A4 box next to the tuning menu sets the concert pitch which begins at 440 Hz but can be set between 432; 446 Hz. The string buttons updates their target frequencies accordingly.
Some keyboard shortcuts are available. Esc will stop any reference playback and the microphone. Tapping the button for one of the strings is the same as pressing the corresponding number key (1-4) to select that string. The tuner has its own frame on the page. Click within the widget first, then use the keys.
Before attempting to use an actual peg, you can get a good feel for what a tuner does by using Practice tuning. The display says virtual string · PRACTICE. This mode features a virtual string where each of the four strings starts out of tune. You move the virtual tuning peg slider from ♭ to ♯ on each string until the needle is centred. You hear the string as it currently is (Hear string) and if you haven’t got it then you’re given a hint like “A little tighter. Move right” when you press Check ✓. When you’ve got that string in tune, the practice moves onto the next string and when you’ve got them all done it says “All strings in tune. Nicely played.” Switching on Practice turns off the microphone so you don’t go into full mode just learning how it works.
The reference sound levels can be adjusted using the volume slider located at the base of the widget. The status line next to this will keep you up-to-date with what’s happening, such as when the microphone is enabled or the tuner is listening locally. Everything is played locally in your browser. Pure tones are mathematically set sine waves. The Ukulele pluck is from Mateusz Dąbrowski’s FreePats recordings of ukulele1 on a Flight Fireball tenor ukulele released under CC0.
Firstly, if you’re new to tuning, go into a quiet space and use the on-line virtual ukulele tuner. Pluck each string firmly so that it rings out then gently adjust the peg until it is correct. The basic rule in the help section is that if it’s flat, tune it tighter, and if it’s sharp, tune it looser.
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