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raymcc85
Registered User
(5/4/01 8:37:49 am)
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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? 
-r
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Bobbie
Registered User
(5/4/01 8:53:49 am)
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what's your favorite metronome?
Could you define annoying
click?
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Sopher
Registered User
(5/4/01 11:06:26 am)
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metronome
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
Registered User
(5/4/01 11:23:06 am)
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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
Registered User
(5/4/01 12:32:19 pm)
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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.
cello_suttonr@hotmail.com
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Bobbie
Registered User
(5/4/01 2:21:20 pm)
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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
Wichers
Moderator
(5/4/01 9:43:32 pm)
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Re:
what's your favorite metronome?
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. :-
)
Laura
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 Steve
Drake
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(5/4/01 11:45:52 pm)
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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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Laura
Wichers
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(5/6/01 9:51:38 am)
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what's a trinome?
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Steve
Drake
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(5/6/01 9:58:36 am)
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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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Ryan
Selberg 
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User
(5/8/01 12:33:16 am)
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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!
Ryan
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cellochris99
Registered User
(5/8/01 4:26:21 am)
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what's your favorite metronome?
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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