Post by RobertW on Feb 20, 2018 17:58:53 GMT -5
EDIT: this review will be superseded with much more in depth one, using 3 different guitars. Too many negative issues were caused not by the device but by the very stiff Aluminum Bronze strings.\
The new review is in progress and will feature 3 guitars with very different headstocks.
Some of you will recall the Timara String Drop that I purchased May 2017. I had bought it to use on my Amber Trail but it's design requires bolt-on tuners, so I ended up putting it on my Martin, with a bit of swearing.
Today I found The Pitch Key with a much different design that is tuner-mounting agnostic. I read how to install and calibrate it and decided this might be a perfect but belated valentine jewelry for Amber.
It cost 33$USD (43.09CAD) which didn't scare me off. Cheaper than the String-Drop! So I ordered it. (Paypal)
It does not require loosening a tuner's bolts, it does not even touch the headstock!
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This was obviously designed by an engineer, while the String Drop seems to have been thrown together by a hacker trying to adapt a woodworker's toggle clamp to a guitar
My only issue is the tiny 1.5mm hex key. So easy to lose the tiny ones.
Of course I'll go on and on about it when it arrives.
The new review is in progress and will feature 3 guitars with very different headstocks.
Guitars Used
Seagull NE Amber Trail MJ CW
Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze Light Seagull tapered .052 43mm
Sigma OOOM-15 D'Addario
EJ16 Light Martin .053 35mm
Ibanez Artwood AVN3-NT Parlour2
Martin Acoustic SP PB Light Slotted .054 48mm
Seagull NE Amber Trail MJ CW
Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze Light Seagull tapered .052 43mm
Sigma OOOM-15 D'Addario
EJ16 Light Martin .053 35mm
Ibanez Artwood AVN3-NT Parlour2
Martin Acoustic SP PB Light Slotted .054 48mm
Some of you will recall the Timara String Drop that I purchased May 2017. I had bought it to use on my Amber Trail but it's design requires bolt-on tuners, so I ended up putting it on my Martin, with a bit of swearing.
Today I found The Pitch Key with a much different design that is tuner-mounting agnostic. I read how to install and calibrate it and decided this might be a perfect but belated valentine jewelry for Amber.
It cost 33$USD (43.09CAD) which didn't scare me off. Cheaper than the String-Drop! So I ordered it. (Paypal)
It does not require loosening a tuner's bolts, it does not even touch the headstock!
h
This was obviously designed by an engineer, while the String Drop seems to have been thrown together by a hacker trying to adapt a woodworker's toggle clamp to a guitar
My only issue is the tiny 1.5mm hex key. So easy to lose the tiny ones.
Of course I'll go on and on about it when it arrives.
I hope no one is offended, after all, I deleted my own as well.