<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 8, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Geoff Sykes wrote: </DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="515414400-09072007"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">In other words, which aural tuning method of the two described above, would produce the more accurate and stable tuning when completed?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>No question---either open-string, one-mute aural tuning---my method---or tuning with a temperament strip, pulling the strip, tuning the unisons, correcting the subtle distortions that caused, then tuning the rest of the piano open string</DIV><DIV>to open string. More stable, more precise, more custom, more musical, more fun to tune.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>