Re: 'Red Snark' Tuners.
Originally Posted by
JeffD
... I once saw Frank Zappa take his cigarette out of his mouth and stab it on a string end on the headstock, so he could conveniently pick it up and finish it a little while later. I thought that was THE. COOLEST. MOVE...
That was a signature gimmick of the African-American folksinger Josh White.
By the way, talking about tuner visibility, I'm now using the D'Addario Planet Waves mini-tuners on most of my performance instruments. You can see them, but they're less than the size of a quarter, they're black, and they work pretty well. I keep my red Snarks around because they have the microphone feature, and that's cool for instruments like Autoharp that don't easily host clip-on tuners. I have one of the D'Addarios on each, guitar, banjo, ukulele and mandolin.
Still a red Snark loyalist, though -- and I'd rather see the clip-on tuner, and have the instrument playing in tune, than have a clean, uncluttered headstock but an out-of-tune instrument.
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