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I love my Dr Beat: https://a.co/d/gy5fIf7. I had bought it for my son, a cellist, > 20 years ago.
My teacher doesn't think I need such a fancy metronome, but I especially like how it shouts out the polyrhythm for duples vs triples. Yes, there is actually a voice that say "one-ti-and-ta" or you can also just have the beats, either with a stronger down beat or not.
It also has the tap function which I found useful when my chamber music group had to figure out at what tempo we had to practice.
Mine can do up to 8 programs, so if I am learning several pieces, I can save the meters and tempi for each piece.
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Randi I agree, I also don't like using my phone, I prefer to put my phone in a different room so I don't get distracted. Instead of a mechanical metronome, I use a standalone electronic, Wittner MT-50 quartz metronome, very inexpensive, super easy to use, easy to bring with you. It was a bit too loud for me so I put a piece of tape over the sound hole. Works well!