Center Pitch CP2 Tuner

by Center Pitch

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B00061P85A
• Item model number: CP-2
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,364 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Tuner. Made by Center Pitch.

A remarkable design concept! Attaches easily, firmly and safely to any brass, woodwind and bowed string instrument. Adjusts to the perfect viewing angle. Displays the immediate pitch response necessary to seriously learn intonation control. Perfect for noisy rehearsal or practice rooms because it "feels" the vibrations of the contact instrument.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Voracious Appetite for Batteries, May 10, 2007

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Len "10101" (Bayside, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Center Pitch CP2 Tuner

This tuner is a good idea but poorly executed. I used it for violin. The worst thing about it is that it uses up relatively small and expensive CR2032 batteries (2 at a time) very quickly. I didn't get many tunings out of a new set of batteries. Hard to believe; perhaps it drains the batteries even when off. It certainly seems that way. It is also a very slow responder. You can check finger positions only if you play scales very slowly. Suggest you look for a tuner that uses AA or AAA batteries with clip-on tuner pickup. This tuner is headed for the trash.

Since writing this I've heard from the company: "We did recently discover that we had a few tuners that were causing the batteries to short each other out. That is not normal--the batteries actually have an approximate 2 year usage life." They offered to replace my unit.

Since writing the above the company replaced the tuner twice, each time with the same result--it drops dead after 3 months or so even if you don't tune with it. So it's the third one that is headed for the trash. In its place I use the less expensive and smaller Cherub WST-550c that has been working perfectly for about 5 months on a single CR2032 battery.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it, March 3, 2008

By 

D. Bolton (NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Center Pitch CP2 Tuner

This tuner came with part of an electric violin set I got, but after using it, I would not recommend this item to anyone. It is a complete waste of money. The batteries only last me a few tunings before dying, often at the most inopportune time, and I don't tend to carry 2 backup batteries as they're rather expensive. If the batteries would last more than a handful of tunings, this would be perfect, but you'd be better off investing your money into a quality item.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, Could be Better, October 31, 2007

By 

Kevin (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Center Pitch CP2 Tuner

I got this to tune my trumpet prior to concert band rehearsal.

As a tuner, it works really well. My only beef is that the clamp only took a few months to get really weak. The toggled offset rod also tends to wobble out of place fairly easily. A few extra cents spent by the manufacturer on these features, and I'd easily give it the maximum rating for quality. As it is - it works, but when I'm trying to tune and it wobbles over or falls off, that's really annoying.

For the record - you can put it on the stand in front of you and it will work just fine that way. I wouldn't say don't get this at all. I'd say - keep in mind where you plan to use it. If you are going to be tuning as you stand outside waiting to head onto the football field - get something else. If you will be using it in concert band, then, it's a great tuner for the price, maybe. That's what I use it for, but it needs to be clamped to the horn when there's a dozen other people blowing theirs a few feet away, and it doesn't do the clamping thing that well.