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Amicrotuner ormicrotonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test thetuning of musical instruments (in particularsynthesizers) withmicrotonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales andjust intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that may differ from those of common Westernequal temperament. The term also indicates a high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintageConn brandbrass andreed instruments (mostlycornets andalto saxophones). These were first introduced with their 1918 catalog and manufactured until about 1954. Such devices were also offered with some vintagesaxophones manufactured in Europe byBeaugnier,Dolnet,Hüller,Keilwerth and other famous makers in the same period.
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