On Oct 18, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: > But people who have tried Dan's hammer are giving rave reviews, > including "fast learning curve," and "helps understand the whole she- > bang better when I use my old hammer." And I think the above states it pretty well: people don't necessarily understand the whole she-bang, because it is very confusing. Lots of different elements going on at once. We focus on where we want the pitch to be as our number one priority in general, especially while learning the trade, but later as well whether consciously or "intuitively." And the focus actually needs to be on "where the heck am I?" Where is the position of the pin relative to where it needs to be? Where the string happens to be just now (the sound of the pitch) is somewhat irrelevant. You may pass over the right spot a hundred times without ever getting the pin in the correct spot. It is rather easy to put a string temporarily in the right spot. So the concept I was outlining is a way to reduce confusion, if not entirely eliminate it. If using Dan's hammer helps, by all means, go for it. I'm not confused any more, but after nearly 30 years of this, it is still a tremendous challenge to accomplish a really acceptable tuning, one where all the unisons are very, very good, and very very solid. Two big major elements: being able to move the pin an extraordinarily small amount, and knowing where the heck you are at all times. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091018/af578985/attachment.htm>
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