Standard phone tuners fail on bagpipes because of the four-sounds problem. A bagpipe produces the bass drone, two tenor drones, and the chanter simultaneously, and an ordinary phone mic held at a distance picks up all four sounds at once, so the reading jumps around or averages into something meaningless.
A tuner needs to be about one inch from a single drone to read it accurately. That's roughly the top of your drones, above your shoulder and behind your head — physically impossible to hold a phone there while also blowing steady and adjusting with your other hand.
A clip-on wireless mic isolates one sound at a time so your existing tuner app finally works properly. The InTune mic clips directly to a drone or sits by the chanter, transmits only that sound wirelessly to your phone, and lets you use any tuner app you already have with a clean, isolated signal.
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Why I Invented the InTune Mic (And How It Became a Bestseller)
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