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raymcc85
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what's your
favorite metronome?
I need a metronome and so I'm looking for recommendations. I'd like
something that doesn't have an annoying click and easy to set up.
Frankly, I'm leaning toward a plain old-fashioned pendulum
metronome. The music stores in my area only seem to have the QT
metronome (too mousey) or the Dr. beat (too expensive). Anyone wanna
sway my decision? 
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Bobbie
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Re: what's your
favorite metronome?
Could you define annoying click?
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Sopher
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I know you say the Dr. Beat is too expensive but it has a lot of
extras. It will also use a human voice to count out the beats (my
7-yr old daughter likes this for her bells practice), it does
composite beats, and it also produces audible tuning tones, which I
find very useful for both woodwind and singing calibration, as well
as checking my regular tuner.
If you have a computer, there
are a number of inexpensive options for metronome software.
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raymcc85
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annoying
click
Annoying click is more like a muted tap or high pitched beep some
electronic metronomes have. To me the pleasing woodblock tap or the
click of a pendulum is least abrasive. I think if I use the ear jack
on an electronic metronome the sound may be more pleasant (or at
least less tinny), but I'm not sure that's more trouble than it's
worth.
And just as a follow up to my original posting, I'm
open to any type of metronome, I just thought I'd see what everyone
else had before buying my own.
Thanks.
-r
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ruthann
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Re: what's your
favorite metronome?
I own three or four... My favorite is an older electronic one about
the size of a toaster. It has a light on top so you can just use the
flash. The click sounds like a clockwork metronome. It has no tuning
note and you have to plug it in. It's about 20 years old and cost
about $100 at that time. The new quartz metronomes will fit in your
pocket, have a tuning note, and run on batteries. I think you can
get a pretty nice one for under $50. The $10 ones are functional,
but have the "microwave beep" for a beat. The clockwork metronomes
are expensive because they are precision instruments, like a wound
grandfather clock. I don't think you can get one for less than
$100.
Hope that helps you.
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Bobbie
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Re: annoying
click
I just got a new one. I think it is a Matrix MR-600 but I'll double
check the number when I get home. It has a nice wood-block click,
adjustable volume, variable rhythm pattern (although the downbeat is
a beep if you use that option), earphone jack, and several octaves
of all the tuning pitches (not annoying) and it was less than $50.
Oh, yes, flashing LED display (not just a blinking light but a row
of lights that go back and forth) also with variable rhythm
patterns.
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Laura
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Re: what's your
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I have two. One is a Korg MK-D1, with adjustable volume from
inaudible to LOUD, and the click sounds like an amplified, slightly
hollow "tock". My other metronome is a Dr. Beat DB-66, which I just
received as a bday gift a few weeks ago. I haven't actually used it
yet, except to annoy my dog by making the voices sing all sorts of
strange rhythm combinations. :- )
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 Steve
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Re: what's your
favorite metronome?
I have lots of metronomes. I used to smash them regularly while I
was a conservatory student, so now that I'm older and wiser, I
provide sanctuary to as many of them as possible instead. My
favorite is the Boss Dr Beat DB88. Tons of fun, and even useful, if
you can remember how to use all its functions. I love the shouting
woman - "1! 2! 3! 4!". I have a cool chinese one that was a copy of
a seiko design, but they forgot the on/off switch, so it's always
on. One of my favorites is the old pendulum design, but instead of a
pyramid case, it's a cat. Shar sold a few varieties of these for a
while, maybe they still do. Of course the best, coolest metronome is
the trinome, but they're impossible to find anymore - and mine is
not for sale for any price. It's the only metronome you can get 7
against 5 against 2 all at the same time.
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Steve
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Re: what's a
trinome?
Here's an interesting page I found while looking for a way to
answer your question
www.organhouse.com/metronomes.htm
I
was going to scan some pics of mine, but this has saved me the
time!
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Re: what's a
trinome?
I actually have one, too, inherited from our former associate
conductor, Robert Henderson, who was clearing out all unwanted stuff
prior to moving to Jackson Hole, where he now lives. I have tried
it, just for the novelty of it, but haven't actually used it for the
sheer need of 7 against 5 against 2. Probably would be most useful
to a conductor working on Ives orchestral works!
When I was
a student at UCLA, back in the sixties, I had a class from Nicolas
Slonimsky the one year he taught there. He was a most facinating
individual, writer and editior of many music books. We didn't learn
much that quarter, but boy did we have a good time. One of his
unusual gifts was the ability to conduct different meters in each
hand. Such as 7 against 5. The two hands would come together every
35 beats, then go off on their merry, independant way! He would also
improvise on the piano, taking such mundane tunes as Happy Birthday
and playing it in the style of every composer we could name, and a
few we never heard of! Great fun. And I remember his class, but few
others! What does that say about my music education?
Hmmmmm!
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cellochris99
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Re: what's your
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Even with the advantages of an electronic metronome, there are alot
of pendulum-style metromones still on the market. Is there any
particular reason that pendulums are sometimes chosen. I'm using a
pendulum that I've had for years, but it's a pain to keep it wound
up. I'd much rather have an electronic.
Chris
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Laura
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Re: what's a
trinome?
I printed the trinome pictures from that website and gave them to
my brother. He's an EE and goes to more electric surplus stores than
I would like to admit; I told him if he finds any in a reasonable
price that either a) work or b) he can fix, buy them.
Is
metronome collecting really a big thing? I can't imagine
why...tickTICKtickTICKtick.
Laura
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SW
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(5/11/01 12:58:53 pm)
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Re: what's a
trinome?
I looked at the pictures on the web site. I think I remember Harold
Bennett having one. I've just given something away about myself, but
will you cellists figure it out? By the way, my favorite is the Dr.
Boss DB88!
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Patocellist
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Re: what's a
trinome?
I have a soft in my Palm M100 organizer, is called Musiciantools,
shareware and easy to find. Is very useful, it has a complete
metronome, and a tuner. Past week, I find myself into a recording
session, and nobody there had a tuner. I pull out my Palm and give
an 440 A to the first violin... Later, the conductor was looking for
a tempo and I said: I have that too! Everybody laughs...
I find
that soft useful too when I am at Conservatory teaching, and want to
recommend metronome studies...If you have a Palm, don't miss this
one.
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