Ron, At 10:28 1/25/2003 -0600, you wrote: >The pretty much universal consensus as I read it is that a first pass >pitch correction, however large or small, is done as quickly as possible. >Little time is wasted on stability. The idea is to get the tension up, get >it in the ball park, and get on with it. Something in the vicinity of >20-25 minutes seems to be about average. > >Pass two, I then read, is to clean up pass one, which the pitch correction >features of the ETD got so close on the first pass that many strings don't >have to be moved at all. > >So in the case where freebies (a serendipitous artifact of pass one) are >cheerfully accepted as a windfall benefit during pass two, how can a >finished tuning that has a number of strings on which no attempt has been >made to settle and stabilize them be a decent and solid tuning? > >Does not compute. >Ron N Simple, first do a solid test/settling blow, _then_ check for serendipity. ;-} Lots-o-times it seems that the serendipity comes with the unisons, where you _have_ settled them whilst they were still muted off. Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT Decorah, IA Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems
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