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size=2>[Feeling akin to the puppy that blunders into No Man's Land (while
the movie audience weeps, of course <g>)....]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Something I've been thinking about lately: when using an ETD, I tune from
one end of the piano to the other, but when I tune aurally, I start in the
middle and work out. There's no reason not to tune middle-out with an ETD,
as far as I know, but I haven't. (I use a Cybertuner.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=421502520-15022007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>So, at least two questions:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>* is the sequence of tuning part of the differences between ears
and ETDs?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>* does anyone do middle-out with an ETD as a matter of
course?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>In light of the recent discussion of how the piano reacts to the changing
stresses of tuning, it seems as though a bottom-top sequence would certainly
torque things around quite differently than
middle-out. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Another question related to stress: strip muting the piano and
tuning one string for all notes before pulling in the unisons vs. tuning all
strings in sequence........</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Thanks, as always!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=421502520-15022007><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Annie Grieshop</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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