[CAUT] no comment

[Cy Shuster]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Israel Stein" <custos3 at comcast.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] no comment


> Hey, there's I dealer I know in Boston who sold one of those "sparkling 
> vibrato" affects to a customer under the name "European Tuning". She 
> insisted on it ever since. She actually complained when another tuner left 
> her with clean unisons - it sounded "dead" to her. I was called to "fix" 
> that - she asked me if I knew "European Tuning". I asked her where she got 
> that from - and she told me the name of the dealer. Knowing the guy's 
> reputation, on a hunch I fuzzed up a few unisons - and she said "perfect - 
> just like when I bought it". I never went back there again...
>
> Israel Stein
>

Isn't there a "ragtime" tuning, where left and center strings are something 
like plus and minus 2 cents from center?  (Seems perverse to actually do it 
on purpose! :-)

--Cy--