The best clip-on guitar tuners 2021: 8 top headstock and soundhole tuners to buy right now
Keep your electric, acoustic, bass guitar or ukulele sounding great with a handy clip-on tuner that's always close by
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Best guitar tuners 2021, from tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
Keep that acoustic, electric, bass guitar or ukulele in tune with the best strobe, polyphonic and chromatic tuners
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Takamine PTU441-MTB review
- £1499
A limited run electro-acoustic that rises to a moment in which parlour guitars are having players see the value in a smaller-bodied instrument
Epiphone USA Collection FT110 Frontier review
- £3619
- €3990
- $3999
Built in the USA, steeped in heritage, this square-shouldered dread' might well be most attractive flat-top on the market
Lowden WL-25 and S-23 12-Fret review
- £3475
Two immaculate instruments that seize the moment for small-bodied acoustic guitars
Yamaha Guitalele GL-1 review
- £73
- €88
- $109
The tiny guitar with the huge, uke-like personality
Cort Core-OC Series review
- £499+
- $499+
Three tonewood flavours from Cort’s OC series offering top-quality at an approachable price
Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Hummingbird review
- £749
- €766
- $799
Does acoustic guitar's most famous songbird take flight in this deluxe Epiphone model
Breedlove Premier Concertina CE review
- £3299
Fresh from Bend, Oregon, this souped-up parlour cutaway is a small-bodied powerhouse
Taylor American Dream AD27 & AD17 Blacktop review
- £1619+
- €1499+
- $1399+
US-built Taylor acoustics at a more friendly price, the American Dream series have an old-school vibe and class in abundance
