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Topic: How to select a metronome? (Read 1860 times)

frankiefrank

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How to select a metronome?

on: April 20, 2010, 08:12:03 PM

Any suggestion?

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pianowolfi

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Re: How to select a metronome?

Reply #1 on: April 20, 2010, 09:14:02 PM

I don't like beeping metronomes, because they irritate me with their specific pitch. So I prefer the ones who go "tick tack" and among them I prefer the mechanical ones, which you need to wind up, (but I don't mind doing this)

If it goes cuckoo it's in all probability not a metronome, but a cuckoo clock.

1..2...3...4.......

....

...

edit after 23 and something hours:
30009876
hmmm I'm still counting, I thought that as soon as I say cuckoo clock Thalbergmad would enter here...

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rachfan

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Re: How to select a metronome?

Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 11:14:45 PM

I still use my old Franz electric (not electronic) metronome with the click and blinking light pulse on the top

. As to a new one, you could go onto Amazon which will display an army of them, and just start looking through their features to see what might most appeal to you.

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Bob

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Re: How to select a metronome?

Reply #3 on: April 23, 2010, 12:50:36 AM

Loud. Of course if they have an audio-out, you can hook them up to something else to amp up the sound too.

Subdivides.

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