I personally love that it has five tuning modes, as we have other instruments in the house and should, we have need, we can use it for other things.

There is a scale on the face, and you can quickly see whether the instrument is sharp or flat- the goal being to have the display read directly in the middle, or course

The better your instruments tonality the better this pickup will work

We purchased this "So There Super Clip-On Tuner for Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Violin & Other Stringed Instruments" tuner to try to keep things sounding decent between lessons, and to hopefully save their poor teacher some time by sending them with instruments ready to play!This little device is certainly doing the trick!

The clamp is rubber coated, so it is not going to damage the instrument in any way.