Tuner
Every note, against your gaita’s own scale
Watch the needle or the Hz in real time. Pick your chanter’s tonality and adjust the reference A.
- C, B♭, D, E♭, F, G and A
- Natural scale, not equal temperament
- Adjustable mic threshold for noisy rooms
Tuner for the Galician bagpipe
Tune the chanter. Play better.
Tempero listens to your gaita and tells you, in cents, how far each note is from its natural scale. It also helps you practise the drones, train your ear and track your progress.
- No account or sign-up
- Sound never leaves your device
- In the browser; Android and iOS in testing
Everything you need to tune and practise
Compensation
Find out which notes need work
Play the scale and see which notes drift, by how much and in which direction, note by note.
- Box plot per note
- Estimated tuning of your A
- Pitch accuracy over time
Practice
Train your ear and your drones
Tune the virtual drone, test your ear with the quiz, measure drone stability while you play, or record a long session.
- Tune the drone
- Drone ear quiz
- Drone tempero
- Long session
History
Keep and compare your sessions
Every session is saved on your device. Compare them with each other or export them.
- Compare two sessions
- Export to CSV or JSON
- Share a text summary
Electronic gaita · experimental
Plug in your MIDI gaita and play
Play with a MIDI chanter over USB, or with the keys. Gaita sounds tempered for seven tonalities, with ronco, ronqueta and chión drones.
- USB MIDI on Android; in the browser with Chrome, Edge or Firefox
- The drones sound while you play the chanter
−31 centsTenth degree vs the piano
The scale
Natural, not tempered
The chanter does not play the piano’s scale. Tempero follows Pedro Lamas’s model: each degree uses a pure harmonic ratio (17/16, 9/8, 6/5…), and the offset is the difference, in cents, from the same tempered degree. The tenth degree, for example, sits 31 cents below.
That is why an ordinary tuner flags notes as out of tune that are right on a gaita.
Try the tuner now
Open the app in your browser, play a note and see where it lands.
It will ask for permission to use the microphone. Works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox.