Tuners in the 70's

[nofi]

for the life of me the only electronic tuner i can remember from that time was the strobe tuner. usually the tuning choices were a piano(hardly practical), 440 tuning fork, a horn player (which was seldom available) and the guitar player who would invariabely say, 'i'm in tune, tune to me'. anybody  

[Pilgrim]

You're forgetting the pitch pipe.

I always carried a pitch pipe in the 60's.  I still have one...never heard of electronic tuners until I returned to bass playing in the late 90's.

[Aussie Mark]

A pitch pipe got me through the 70's, as did the entire band tuning to one of the guitars as a reference point.

[jmcgliss]

I tuned to a Fender Rhodes if on a gig, otherwise a pitch pipe.  At home I probably tuned to the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East record 

[Hornisse]

We always had to tune to the Rhodes piano at gigs.  This was back in 1978 or so.

[Highlander]

I used a tuning fork, or "At Filmore East" 

Either that or "who's in tune...?" but as I mostly played in three-pieces, not much tuning needed...

[Pilgrim]

I used a tuning fork, or "At Filmore East" 

Either that or "who's in tune...?" but as I mostly played in three-pieces, not much tuning needed...

In orchestra, everyone tuned to the 1st violin. People forget that you don't have to be pitch-perfect, but you DO have to be tuned the same way.

[rahock]

By the  late 70s I had a little a Korg tuner. I think that was still in the 70s
Ya know, if I turn out to be the high tech guy here you guys are in trouble . I'm about the same level as Fred Flintstone
Rick

[patman]

I'll second that by the late 70's, I had a quartz tuner with a needle, maybe korg or something

[gweimer]

Yup.  When you had a keyboard player, you tuned to them.  In our case, it was to the Hammond CV organ.  Later, he got a real piano, and he had to tune it to the organ, as well.  Once we lost the keys, we were lucky that one of the guitarists had a Peterson strobe tuner.  I want to say that someone came out with a lower cost tuner (maybe Korg), but I can't remember whether we had one.

[Muzikman7]

I have a ZEN-ON Justina guitar tuner from late '70s still works great.

[patman]

that's it...why couldn't I remember that.

[ilan]

We used to tune to the phone dial tone.

[Highlander]

By the  late 70s I had a little a Korg tuner. I think that was still in the 70s

Ha... LOL... just realised I had one too, still got it... your off the hook, Rick... we both may have to go down with the (techie) ship... 

[Grog]

I still have "The Master Key Chromatic Pitch Instrument" tucked away in my '69 LP Deluxe. It's been in there for over 35 years. I don't think I've used it in 25 years.  
http://www.gradywilliamkerr.com/PitchPipes/PitchPipe.html