6 Best Ukulele With Built-in Tuner

You can easily use a built in tuner ukulele. First, make sure the battery is properly set, you should check the battery gate which is typically at the sides. Now, switch on the tuner, it’ll show an LCD light switched on. Choose the accurate mode, chromatic mode for standard GCEA tuning. Either tune the first G string and tune others by keeping it as reference or tune every string with the help of the built in tuner.  

If you are a beginner, getting a tuner for your ukulele might be the best option for you. Since you always need to tune your ukulele to sound good, it’s important to learn to tune it properly. As a beginner you wouldn’t have enough ear-practice to pick up the desired pitch and tune to the right level. This is the first lesson taught in every ukulele class, how to tune a ukulele. Getting a tuner for your ukulele will help in finding the perfect pitch and tone you need to set. A tuner will display the accurate pitch and let you know how out of tune your ukulele is, or if you need to tune higher or lower. 

There are some simple ways to help tune a ukulele perfectly without an electronic tuner. These are: 
1. Using Reference Notes: This is a very common ukulele tuning method, you’ll have to use another instrument like a piano, tuning fork or pitch pipe, or even a digital sound as a reference to get the perfectly right pitch. You need to play this note with your ukulele strings and adjust the tuning peg to match the pitch with your reference note. 
2. Using Other Ukulele Strings: This requires higher ear-practice, but you can always tune your ukulele by using your own strings as a reference note for another string. You just need to tune the G string correctly, to whatever pitch you want and then begin tuning the rest of the strings from there. Now pluck the 7th fret of the next C string and tune it up and down until it sounds exactly like the G string. For the third string, the E string, hold down the 4th fret of C string and tune it until it matches. For the last string, the A string, hold the 2nd fret of the first G string and match their pitches. 

When you play your ukulele and the tuning sounds off when they’re played in chorus, then one or more of your strings are out of tune. More simply, when you notice that each string, whenever plucked, doesn’t sound the same then your ukulele requires tuning. This happens when one or more of your strings are sharp or flat, or simply too tight or too loose. You’d know if your ukulele is in tune when all the strings sound the same, or have the same pitch in relation to each other.  

All the string instruments need to be regularly tuned, for them to sound good. But ukuleles are especially prone to falling out of tune easily. This is because they have extra-stretchy strings which tend to get loose when you play. And even after the strings have settled in and are tuned properly, slight changes in the temperature and humidity can also cause a ukulele to slip out of tune. If your ukulele is new or you’ve attached new strings, then also it’s highly prone to falling out of tune. Because the strings require some time to settle in and some stretches, so you’ll have to constantly tune your ukulele in the first few hours of playing.