


The design advanced to solid state with the Model 300 in 1966. These tuners used vacuum tube technology and produced a wide range of finely adjustable audio tones. The Model 150, and the Model 200 released in 1959 were the first products to carry the Peterson name. The first Peterson tuner, the Model 150, was released in 1952, after Peterson developed it for their own use in tuning organs. is still family owned, and still has an active research and development program for tuner and pipe organ-equipment product lines. The "BBO" used pipe organ components and beer bottles with liquid, precisely tuned with a Peterson strobe tuner, to produce a clear, flute-like musical sound when played with a keyboard or via recorded MIDI files. In 1998, the Peterson Company celebrated its 50-year anniversary by creating the "Beer Bottle Organ" prototype in the exhibit area of the American Institute of Organ Builders convention.

Peterson became Company President, after previously serving as Design Engineer, Production Manager, and Vice President. Peterson bought their Strobotuner division, and continue to service the Strobotuner product line, which is now made in China. They built two additional buildings totaling 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2) on the company site between 19. In 1964, the Peterson company built a new 3,000-square-foot (280 m 2) headquarters in Alsip, Illinois, on a plot of 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2). The company went on to produce other products for musical tuning, electronic organs, home security, and keyboards, and later developed and produced electronic and electro-mechanical equipment used in pipe organs. In 1957, Peterson completed the world's first transistor organ for Gulbransen. He soon licensed his inventions to the Gulbransen Piano Company of Chicago to use in home electronic organs. Peterson founded Peterson Electro-Musical Products in 1948. He also focused on the realistic attack and decay of individual electronic notes. He founded Haygren Organ Company to build electronic pipe organs with a sound he felt better matched real pipe organs, and was the first to use multiple oscillators in the organ design to produce a genuine ensemble. Army near the end of World War II, and while stationed in New York City, developed a further fascination with the sound and mechanics of pipe organs. He served as a radio operator for the U.S. In his teens, he began developing a keen interest in radios, vacuum tube circuits, and pipe organs. "Dick" Peterson (born February 26, 1925, died January 29, 2009), was born in Chicago. Company history Richard Peterson Founderįounder Richard H. Since its inception the company has also contributed notable inventions and innovations to the electronic organ, and its products are in use in many thousands of pipe organs, and hundreds of thousands of electronic organs, worldwide. The Peterson company introduced the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians, the Model 70, in 1964, and later its models of strobe tuners became popular among touring and studio musicians such as the Grateful Dead, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young. is a music-electronics company founded by Richard H. Real Strobe Tuner with 0.Peterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc.User-Configurable Display Backlight Color.Easily Visible in Direct Sunlight or Stage Lighting.High-Definition LCD Display with LED Backlight.StroboStomp Mini is everything you need in a pedal tuner shrunk down to less than half the size of StroboStomp HD. As with all Peterson tuners, StroboStomp Mini adheres to their 0.1 cents standard of tuning accuracy. Users will find everything they love about StroboStomp HD in StroboStomp Mini, pop-less true bypass, pure buffer, always-on Monitor Mode, transposition, adjustable concert A reference, as well as a few new features like Power Up Mute State not yet available on StroboStomp HD. They felt there could be no concessions in StroboStomp Mini.

With over 80 exclusive Sweetened Tunings® and Guided Tunings on-board, you'll be able to dial in your sound and tune like the pros!Peterson designed StroboStomp Mini around the most requested features from their customers: a mini form factor, and top mounted jacks. A pop-less true bypass mode and a buffered output mode place you in command of your precious tone without compromise. Featuring a high-definition LCD strobe display with variable LED color backlight, your instruments will never sound more in tune. The StroboStomp Mini™ delivers the unmatched 0.1 cent tuning accuracy of all authentic Peterson Strobe Tuners in a mini pedal tuner format. For over 75 years, Peterson has been trusted by some of the biggest names on stage and in the studio as the standard in tuning precision.
