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🎙️ The InTune Mic

A wireless clip-on microphone built to solve one specific bagpipe problem: getting a tuner app to hear a single sound out of four happening at once.

The Short Version

It exists to solve a microphone problem, not a software problem. Tuner apps are precise and never confused — the failure point is a phone microphone that's too far from the sound it's supposed to isolate. The InTune Mic clips directly onto the drone or chanter so it hears only that sound.
It's two pieces: a clip-on mic and a receiver. The mic clips onto a drone, chanter, or smallpipes; the receiver plugs into the phone. Turn the mic on, plug in the receiver, and a light changes from flashing to solid when they're paired.
It works with any tuner app, hands-free. Once paired, it feeds whichever app is running — Braw, TonalEnergy, or otherwise — and frees a piper to wander around the room and play instead of standing frozen in front of a phone.

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About the InTune mic

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✅ The essentials

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⭐ Essential Highlights

“The other thing about the bagpipes is we have four sounds happening simultaneously, so the tuner is not smart enough to know what sound it should be listening to. If you hold that phone even three inches away from that tenor drone, now it's about three inches from the other tenor drone, and it doesn't know what it's listening to. So what we're left with is this powerful tuning app — but the microphone has to be right on top of where the sound is coming from. That's what the InTune Mic lets you do.”▶ 09:51 · Using the InTune Mic
“When you get your mic, it comes in a cool little case — the InTune Mic, wireless clip-on instrument microphone for smartphones. The two main components are the mic with the little clip — this can clip onto your chanter or your drones, your smallpipes or whatever — and the receiver, which plugs into your phone. Turn it on, it flashes red and green. When you plug the receiver into your phone — bang — the light turns green. Now they are paired, connected.”▶ 11:08 · Using the InTune Mic
“If you've got your InTune Mic, you just clip it on your chanter, and you can wander around the house — you don't have to be standing right up close to your phone. What that's gonna let you do is take a reading and average — all those little dots are moving around based on what the app is hearing you play. I actually prefer that, rather than staring at the tuner, because I can just play.”▶ 43:29 · Intermediate and Advanced Pipe Chanter Tuning: Tape, Pokers,
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The problem it was built to solve

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Using it well: precision, pairing with a gauge, and reading drift

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