Problem 379. Chromatic Tuner

Created by @bmtran (Bryant Tran)

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Venu Lolla on 23 Feb 2012

@bmtran: Could you please verify that the octave numbers in the semitone names are correct in the test suite? Some of them do not seem to be consistent with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation
Cheers, VL.

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 24 Feb 2012

sorry about that. i've fixed it to the best of my knowledge. i hope this didn't cause you too much distress.

Venu Lolla on 24 Feb 2012

Thanks for fixing it. No distress anymore. Cheers.

Óscar on 24 Aug 2012

Nice problem, specially when coming from Austin, Live Music Capital of the World.

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