Ron N, At 17:50 10/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I don't trust freebies when I'm tuning. I don't know where they've been, >or the relative tensions of string segments, until I've moved them. After >listening to one too many fine sounding strings drop drastically in pitch >on a medium hard blow, and following one too many tuners the week after >they had tuned to find the same sort of thing, I tune each and every >string (or at least attempt to). I don't trust freebies, either. I _am_ happy when the note blushes when I call on it, but I still do a hard blow to see if it is stable. I tend to think of the ETD like power steering... I'm still in control, I get where I want to go and I'm not as tired when I get there. When I get to do those triple tunings, I know my ear will be the final arbiter, but I'll have less to do with the groundwork the ETD has done. Conrad Hoffsommer - Decorah, Ia. mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
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