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Free Online Pitch Pipe

Give a choir or singer the starting note: tap any of the 12 notes to hear it, held for as long as you need, or play the chord. A chromatic pitch pipe in your browser, C to C or F to F, tuned to A = 440.

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It works like a pitch pipe app for singers, with nothing to install: it runs in your browser on a phone, tablet or classroom computer. Tap a note to hear it. Choose Hold until Stop to keep it sounding while the singers find it. Prefer a piano? Switch Notes on to Keyboard.

Giving a starting note

  1. Find the first note of each part in the music, or the key note if your choir pitches from the chord.
  2. Play it, or play the chord. Play the chord sounds the three notes one by one, then together, then the starting note again, which is how many choir leaders give a key.
  3. Let the singers hum it back before you count in, so you can hear that everyone has it.

Singing and practicing at home

  • Check your starting note before singing a song without accompaniment.
  • Match a held note. Hold a note and sing it until the two sounds blend: a good warm-up for singing in tune.
  • Learn where it sits. Every note shows on the staff, from the bass clef below middle C to the treble clef above it.

Using it in class

  • A cappella songs. Give the starting note for a round or a song with no piano.
  • Echo singing. Play a note, the class sings it back; then two notes for a simple interval.
  • No piano in the room. It works on any classroom computer, tablet or interactive whiteboard.

Share or embed

Put it on your class page

Set it up above the way you want it, then copy the code. Paste it where your site takes embed code: in Google Sites, Insert → Embed → Embed code. Most school websites and learning platforms have a similar box.

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The embed sets no cookies and collects nothing about the people who use it. Under it is a small “Pitch pipe by Trebly” link.

Telling families about it? Share Trebly with your school: a letter home with a QR code.

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Questions

C to C or F to F?

Real chromatic pitch pipes come in both. C to C runs from middle C up to the C above it, which suits most treble voices. F to F starts at the F below middle C, which suits lower voices and mixed choirs. Lower and Higher move either one by an octave.

What tuning does it use?

Standard concert pitch: the A above middle C is 440 Hz, with every other note in equal temperament, the same as a piano. For the frequency of every note, see the music note frequency chart.

Is this a tuner?

No. A pitch pipe plays a note for you to match; a tuner listens to you. This one never uses the microphone.

Why do some notes have two names?

C♯ and D♭ are the same key on a piano. Which name the music uses depends on the key, so both are shown. When you play a chord, its notes are named the way the chord is written: C minor is C, E♭, G.