electronic, in my experience the two biggest advantages of an electronic device are: 1) it can deliver more complicated rhythms than a mechanical device and 2) some feature a flashing light so you can use them silently. You can adjust the number of beats between "chimes" or turn the bell off completely and use it like a standard metronome. Playing with a standard metronome, if I accidentally drop a beat from a measure I don't always realize it right away. To answer your question, I have the version with the bell (Wittner #816) and find it very useful when first learning a new work as the chime indicates the downbeat. Is the chime feature really an advantage or just an extra that's not a big deal? I'm content to adjust my face watch now and then if it gets a minute off - and that really doesn't happen more than once a year anyway!) Digital clocks and digital metronomes meet a need (for portability and affordable accuracy), but my house would never feel like home without some lovely face clocks and my pendulum metronome sitting atop my piano. (My husband has a fancy digital watch that links up to a satellite to keep it accurate to the second. I also far prefer a watch or clock with hands to a digital model. I am a visual person (the type that has to have a map to look at rather than written out directions), and I feel there is an aesthetic (even artistic) quality to the pendulums that is simply missing in the others. I also agree with the person who found it helpful to anticipate the beat by seeing the swing of the pendulum - you just don't get that with a digital. Wow, so many people trying to talk you into a digital/electronic metronome even though you prefer the pendulum metronome! Well, I agree with you that a fine wooden-cased pendulum will look very nice on your 100-year-old piano. If you like to sub-divide the beats and feel less beats per measure and or have trouble doing that the bell is nice but not necessary. You want a metranome with an arm because just like a conductor in an orchestra you can see the movement from the corner of your eye and you ability to stay with it is easier and your playing is not so choppy because you can musically anticipate it because of the motion not just the sound. They break down and you have to ship them back to the company, (paying for it yourself of course)3 to 5 monthes later you get it back for almost the cost of a new one. by a clock maker and they were wonderful and somewhat affordable however they sold out to a Chinese company and the insides are made with plastic parts. Seth Thomas used to be the ones made in the U.S. You should never have to get another if you don't overwind it as some people are prone to do. The only kind of metranome that I reccommend is a Wittner made in West Germany.
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