----- Original Message ----- From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net> To: <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] no comment > Hey, there's I dealer I know in Boston who sold one of those "sparkling > vibrato" affects to a customer under the name "European Tuning". She > insisted on it ever since. She actually complained when another tuner left > her with clean unisons - it sounded "dead" to her. I was called to "fix" > that - she asked me if I knew "European Tuning". I asked her where she got > that from - and she told me the name of the dealer. Knowing the guy's > reputation, on a hunch I fuzzed up a few unisons - and she said "perfect - > just like when I bought it". I never went back there again... > > Israel Stein > Isn't there a "ragtime" tuning, where left and center strings are something like plus and minus 2 cents from center? (Seems perverse to actually do it on purpose! :-) --Cy--
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