Piano tuner

A piano tuning device comprising:

• a housing supporting a plurality of magnetic pickups and a plurality of piano strings, wherein each magnetic pickup of the plurality of the magnetic pickups being positionable over a separate piano string of the plurality of piano strings to create a signal that is representative of a note from each respective piano string of the plurality of piano strings;
• a signal transmitter within the housing for transmitting the signal representative of the detected note;
• and
• the signal being sent to a remote automatic piano tuner unit having a comparison device that compares the detected note signal against a stored note signal to evaluate and correct the selected piano string and bring the selected piano string into tune.

A method of tuning a musical instrument with strings comprising:

• detecting vibration of a plurality of piano strings with a plurality of magnetic pickups, wherein each magnetic pickup of the plurality of the magnetic pickups being positionable over a separate piano string of the plurality of piano strings to create a signal that is representative of a note from each respective piano string of the plurality of piano strings;
• processing the tuning signal to determine a first value for a tuning period of the tuning signal;
• and
• comparing the first value for the tuning period of the tuning signal to a second value for a baseline period of a musical note to evaluate the tuning signal.

An apparatus for tuning a piano comprising:

• a detector operable to receive string vibrations from a plurality of piano strings with a plurality of magnetic pickups, wherein each magnetic pickup of the magnetic pickups being positionable over a separate piano string of the plurality of strings to produce a tuning signal for each piano string of the plurality of piano strings to is respresentative of note from each respective piano strings;
• and to produce a tuning signal;
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• a processor operable to receive the tuning signal, determine a first value for a tuning period of the tuning signal, and compare the first value for the tuning period of the tuning signal to a second value for a baseline period of a musical note to evaluate the tuning signal.