No, I tune the first string as well as I can, and then I tune the other strings to the first. The effect is not uniform, and I've decided that any attempt to compensate may actually result in greater error, if in fact there is error in the first place. A purely aural tuning would be subject to this phenomenon, but the flatter unison would not be noticed unless a sensitive ear checked it against a fork before and after the second and third strings were tuned. Since aural tunings don't get checked and changed, I see no reason to do any differently for one using a VTD. Again, it's my philosophy of not worrying too much about things we can't control, which we wouldn't know how to control if we could, and which probably make no difference. Frank Weston ---------- > Hi Frank: > > As a result of that written below, do you then tune your first single string > of an octave approx. 1/2 cent sharp in order that the complete unison > and octave will be in tune as Virgil does? > > Jim Coleman, Sr. > >
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