On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Edward Sambell wrote: > One time I went to tune a grand at the Banff Center and wondered > what in the world was happening, the tuning was so weird. A close > look revealed residue from masking tape on many strings. It was > quite difficult to clean off. If I had known someone was about to do > this, I could have steered them to use painters tape, which leaves > little or no trace Yes, in addition to the nasty adhesive, masking tape is heavy enough to throw unisons pretty badly, and other intervals as well. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110201/cd5042e2/attachment.htm>
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