strip muting: pitch question

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi Wim:

I'll step in here and answer your question. When one uses a strip in pitch
raising it IS necessary to use a higher overpull percentage because as you
tune up the scale the center strings which you already have tuned to the
overpull position have already dropped some by the time you get around to
working out the strip and tuning the unisons. The side strings therefore
do not get as much overpull as the center string did.

When one tunes the unisons immediately after each center string is tuned,
all 3 strings are tuned to the same pitch. Therefore, it not necessary to
use as high an overpull to start with. It is faster to tune only the center
strings first using a strip and then later pull in the unisons. NOw we can
tune either way. I like the faster way better. It is nice to have the higher
overpull option with the SAT III.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 Wimblees@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 98-08-20 10:27:29 EDT, you write:
> 
> << Hi Wim,
>  
>  If it makes *no* difference, then how do you explain the necessity for a
>  greater over pull if only one wire per note is tuned first?
>   >>
> 
> 
> I am not sure I understand what you are talking about. Are you saying you are
> able to "measure" the amount of overpull when doing one wire per note, or do
> you just assume you are doing it? By the time I tune each wire, I go back and
> forth so many times, (setting the pin, settling the wire),  that I don't pay
> much attention to how much overpull I do.
> 
> Wim 
>