>>> piano -tuner <<< 

automatic and bias-adjustable instrument tuning program

Hallo friends, 

piano is a simple but quick instrument tuning and frequency measuring program. 
piano only needs a computer with soundcard and linux. All three may even be old ones. This may even be better...
piano is a simple-compiling console (ncurses) program. 

piano will guess the note just played (or one of its harmonics) 
and help you fine-tune it in a range of +/- 1/2 tone. 

The heart of piano is derived from the ham radio decoder "multimon" by Tom Sailer, many thanks Tom! 

It is called piano-tuner here because the name „piano“ was occupied already.


Has just (2019/07/21) been debugged a little bit by me…Sure you will find some more and even some new bugs.

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There are some great things in piano:

  • You can also tell piano by options to tune a special note and octave or a special frequency (for electronic measurings).

  • From version 1.3 on you also can change the bias at runtime by + / - key.

  • This "bias" can also be given as option (e.g. in a script) and helps tuning older, lower-tuned pianos.

  • A "soundcorr" option can correct the sample rate of the soundcard 
    (there is Tom Sailer's refreq program included in the package, 
    which gives you this factor from a reference frequency.) 

How to install piano:

    tar -zxvf  piano-<version>.tar.gz
    cd piano-<version> 
    ./configure
    make
    (as root) make install

    for more information, see README and „piano.1“ = after install: man piano.

    At the moment, piano does NOT work with Ubuntu. Why? Old OSS sound API is not correctly supported here.
    Debian is better in this case.

Documentation on piano:

„piano -h“ or „man piano“

Where to find piano:

  • The place for the latest version is always: 
    http://sf.net/projects/piano-tuner

  • This page has been designed by J.M., thanks!

  • Every news from you is an encouragement for us going on with developing piano.
    If you like, help programming. In any case, have a lot of fun!

Maintainer of piano: Günther Montag dr.g.montag@gmx.net