For a bit of trivia on what a such tuner might be
good for, for someone other than Beethoven ;)

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[-||| Jaromil |||-] Mused ::
~
~ hi a5',
~
~ On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, a5' wrote:
~>
~> For what its worth the intention was to offer a
~> suggestion for the
~> new dynebolic because I find it frustrating that
~> its the only thing
~> it doesn't have...
~
~
~ you are right and back then about 5 years ago while
~ rounding up on the
~ applications to be included I've given to this a
~ thought, especially
~ since I also play guitar and strings in general.
~
~ I did not took the initiative to include it into
~ the audio module
~ because of my belief on the broader topic of guitar
~ tuning: its very
~ useful to do it by ear. that way one can really
~ train his/her ear for
~ notes and, once you know it really you don't need a
~ tuner anymore.
~
~ after having learned to use harmonics for tuning
~ (the higher sounds
~ produced by soflty touching strings in particular
~ positions, makes it
~ kind of easier to finetune with more precision) and
~ considering there
~ is always an A tune diapason in my treasure chest,
~ I don't feel the
~ need for a semi-automatic guitar tuner.
~
~ anyway, anyone can do a dyne module and include it,
~ or compile it from
~ source, or import it from other distributions as
~ Guy says.
~
~ i also recall giftmischer had a guitar tuner dyne
~ module in his
~ repository.
~
~ ciao
~
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