Peterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc. is a music-electronics company founded by Richard H. Peterson in 1948, and introduced the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians.
The Peterson company introduced the Model 70, the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians, in 1964. Later its models of strobe tuners became popular among touring and studio musicians such as Grateful Dead, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young. Since its inception the company has also contributed notable inventions and innovations to the electronic organ, and its products are used in many thousands of pipe organs, and hundreds of thousands of electronic organs, worldwide.
WHY PETERSON?
How exactly are Peterson tuning products different from other tuners? What is a strobe tuner? Do I really need to be that "in tune"? What are "Sweetened Tunings"?
If you've asked any of these questions in the past, we invite you to watch Peterson's video series that breaks each one of these points down and explains how their tuning products can help make your instrument sound the best it can.
