<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Incidentally, I think a large part of the reason for this is<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">tuners being so willing to accept "freebies". We all leave<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">different "signature" torque and segment tension differences<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">in our tunings. I discovered a long time ago that by moving<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">and re-settling every single string, the resulting tuning is<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">much more stable.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Ron N</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Amen, amen....I have never understood the idea of a freebie. You put your lever on every pin, and tune. Your mind can play amazing tricks on you: "yup, this is in tune, it's OK, I'm in a hurry, sounds good, whatever....."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Craftsmen do quality work---all the way through to the end. I'm confessing that, left to my own devices, I'm lazy.</DIV><DIV>So doing my best on every single tuning is a long-standing habit that keeps me safe from my own slacker tendencies.</DIV><DIV>And it's worked out pretty good for me. <g></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David A.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>