You can't stick a piano in your pocket the way you can a pitch pipe, but if you have one around, it can be handy to tune to.
This is the most common method, because it doesn't require electronic tuners, pitch pipes, guitars or cumbersome pianos.
With just a set of
pitch pipes and a copy of the First Steps guitar tutor, he soon taught himself how to tune up and play basic chords.
A 1788 ad by the Hartford cabinet and chair maker Aaron Chapin, which includes
pitch pipes, flutes, and fifes among his varied wares, and similar ads from furniture makers and turners throughout New England hint at an unsophisticated clientele and at the difficulty of obtaining better, costlier imported instruments.
Yuzhi Lulu zhengyi houbian ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), or The Sequel to the Imperially Commissioned Proper Meaning of the
Pitch Pipes (hereafter the Sequel), was commissioned by Qianlong ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1711-1799, r.
Used to be,
pitch pipes (diagram above) were one of the few tools folks had to tune their instruments.