At 12:49 AM 01/25/2001 +0000, you wrote: >Hi, > >As some of you may know, one has to meddle a little bit around with a >temperament in order to get it working. > >Thatīs why I raised an eyebrow when a colleague of mine told me he tuned >only using two mutes. No temperament strip, so when he does the >temperament he has to tune all the strings of a given unison, and then >tunes the next note. >Now, if he has to change a note, (which is quite normal when tuning >temperament as you know) he has to tune all the unisons again! He says it >doesnīt take more time, that the time of putting the strip in weighs >against the time it takes to tune all the strings all the time. > >This is as rheumatic as two dry toasts, I feel. (plagiarized from >Shakespeare) > >What do you think? Do any of you do this? > > >Kristinn Off hand I would say : BS but then again I've heard that Jack Sprinkle only tuned with two mutes. Using only two mutes, he might only tune one wire in the unison as well... does he gauge off the left or right string? Just because he does not mute all but the center strings, does not mean he is diverging from your method, it's just a method which is different from yours and might be more time consuming in your eyes; but it works for him. Disparage not, there is a lot more funkier stuff under the next rock, this is just a speck on God's Green Acre, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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