Hi again folks. Thanks for the replies guys. The reason I ask is that I ran into a method for doing this that seemed rather brutal to me, and was curious to see if anyone had run into it. The fellow called it <<flexi tuning>>. On grands he would align his tuning hammer so that it ran as close to parallell to the strings as he could, pull up the tension on the string and then literally bang (very hard) on the end of the tuning hammer so as to rather violently bend the pin towards the speaking length of the string. This would lower the string tension without turning the pin the logic went, and thus lowering the tension also (presumably) on the backlength. Then he would re-tune the speaking length. All this strikes me as a bit odd really. I suppose that given the friction of the bridge pins, there might be some degree of difference between tension for and aft of the bridge without affecting tuning stability, but I have a hard time imagining very much. I have dabbled a bit in <<tuning>> the back scale by using a string hook. I'd check the pitch of the backlength before and after, and then again after tuning the speaking length and never found I could get the back length to stay where I tried to tune it. I cant say I really got into the whole process much as it just seemed that with good basic tuning technique the back length tension should take care of itself. I guess I will have to try this out a bit more given some of the comments about clarity in the high treble. That said, I think I feel another one of those itches behind my ear coming on :) Cheers RicB
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