How much do guitar tuners cost?

Answer 1

if you don't know your stuff its however much they charge you. but all it really costs to restring your guitar is as much at the strings cost because stringing your guitar is a very simple do-it-yourself task. on electrics (not including those with a Floyd rose) with a tremolo system (whammy bar) there are some Guitars that have holes in the back side of the guitar (6 for strings, 7 for 7 etc) then you just put them o the tuning heads. while on a les paul style guitar or anything with a "tune-o-matic" they are simply put through the designated hole then to the tuning pegs. make sure on either style that you put the strings in the little slots (saddle) and in the nut slots. hope this helps - Kyse

Answer 2

It doesn't have to cost a cent to tune a guitar. It is not like a piano, which requires a trained, experienced technician. Any guitar player should be able to tune their own instrument, as well as change broken strings.

You need a pitch source to start with, and the standard is A. This is the same note (although usually a different octave) as the second string (counting physically from the top, although when tuned it will be the second string musically from the bottom.) There are many ways to get a reference tone: Wikipedia pages (both the page for "A440 (pitch standard" and "Concert Pitch" have a button you can click which produces the tone, as well. You can pay for a tuning fork or electronic tuner or tone generator, but it is not necessary. The tone on either of the Wikipedia pages are all you need.

Tuning a guitar starts with adjusting the string to the reference pitch. Tuning essentially means "make the same frequency" and the best way to do that is to listen for 'beats'. Beats happen in your ear when two pitches are heard. If the two pitches are far apart, but in the right relationship, you can hear other pitches. If the two pitches are close, you will hear a wavering in the sound. The closer you get them, the slower the wavering gets until it disappears. At this point, the string you are adjusting is at the same pitch as the reference.

You will use the A=440 from wikipedia as a reference to tune the A string.

The pitch of A=440 is two octaves higher than your A string should be. This is not a problem, because your ear hears a kind of sameness between any notes which are octave-related. Tighten or loosen the A string by turning the tuning "key". Make it match the A reference, two octaves lower. You can check that you're in the right place by placing your finger lightly over the fifth fret (the metal bar set into the neck, counting from the white nut at the tuning-end of the guitar neck) and plucking the string. Don't press hard enough to muffle the sound: it should sound two octaves higher than that string, and if the string is at the right A pitch, it will be identical to the tone you hear from the reference. If you play this higher pitch and adjust the string until the beats go away, it will be in tune!

Now, to tune the rest of the strings, you press the thickest string between the fourth and fifth fret, nearer to the fifth fret, and tighten or loosen the key for that string until the note you are fingering is the same as the open A string. This sets the bottom string to E, when the beats are gone. You can continue like this: The fifth fret of the A (second) string is the pitch to tune the third string, D. The fifth fret of the D string is the pitch for the fourth string, G.

Now, here it changes: the pitch at the fourth fret of the G string is the pitch for the fifth string, B. This is the one deviation in the string intervals in the guitar.

The last string, E, can be tuned to match the B string's fifth fret. At this point, you should be able to finger the second fret on the third string (D string) and compare this note to the top and bottom strings. All three notes will be E, with the fingered note an octave higher than the bottom E string and an octave lower than the top E string.

This is a commonly-used method of tuning the guitar. There are others, many of them. The guitar should be in good shape, because if the neck is warped or the frets damaged, the notes won't be right when you finger them. But at this point, this method should be good enough for what you're doing with it.

I highly recommend finding someone to teach you: they don't even have to be a professional teacher, if they play well. There are many things, simple and even obvious-seeming, once you've been introduced to them, which will make it more fun to play guitar!

Answer 3

It depends but mine was about 15$ but I've seen them as low as 5$

Answer 4

This shouldn't be expensive , in fact you could probably get some one to do it for free! $10-20 would be right.