flat A

[Susan Kline]

Warren, were all the tunings made with only one pass? I haven't noticed the
effect you're talking about. I'm an aural tuner, and I do several quick
passes.  Do you do all your tunings using the same order of operations, or
do you vary some? Do you think the "flat A" happens only for SAT tunings?

It helps that you keep such good records, so you can check on prior pitch
raises.

"Just curious", as we say ...

>Thanks Russell, this gives me some other ways to look at things while
>trying to solve this thing.  I've also noticed a slight dip in the "A"
>on some of my 'yearly' customers now that I've started thinking about
>it.  These were all FAC tunings with a SAT.  Now I'm going to start
>checking the "F's" and "C's" also to see if there is some kind of
>pattern here.  I'm also going to check to see if the previous tuning
>included a substantial pitch raise.
>
>One thing that has already happened is that I check the pitch of the
>strings on both sides of the "A" and use the average to set my offset.
>
>Warren
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Susan Kline
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