soft blows / tuning

[Jenneetah]

At 6:50 AM -0500 10/27/04, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:
>The "bump" was a popular dance when I was starting tuning, and a lot 
>of "jerks" did it at the time.  I tend to think of tuning with 
>gentle nudges.  You can feel if you actually moved the tuning pin, 
>or just twisted the top half.

At 1:20 AM -0400 10/27/04,  Jenneetah wrote:
>When you think the pin and string are set, nudge the hammer CW and 
>see how large a nudge it takes to produce a change in the speaking 
>length..........

Of course, if in this stability check, you make any motion with the 
tuning pin or string large enough that they don't immediately snap 
back (as judged by a return to the dead unison), you then have to go 
back to square one.