<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I have yet to have a doctor offer to waive his fee even when what he did made things much worse than they originally were. They don't guarantee satisfaction for very good reasons, and I don't see that you owe her a thing.<div class="Ih2E3d">
<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>This was my first thought today while reading your query on my iPhone. But I was tuning and couldn't make a response. So Ron beat me to it. <G></div><div><br></div>
<div>I wouldn't refund anything. You've already been out there twice. Either you're confident about your competence, or you're not. My bet is that you're quite competent.</div><div><br></div><div>Just for us to discuss, though, was the offending note the same one in each of the different tunes she played? </div>
<div><br></div><div>I notice the notes adjacent to the treble break on all Baldwins (well - make that both breaks actually <g>) are hard to get to sound right -- musically speaking. I'm trying to remember how the Verituner tunes the Baldwin scale ... it may be that F5, F#5, and G5 are tuned too sharp ... as I think is the tendency with the VT on that scale. In aural tuning those notes with the single octave below, that's my tendency also -- to go too sharp which is what the single octave calls for. So I especially test those three notes to make sure they blend well with the DO and the P12 below them. If she's playing D#3 or D4 along with the F5 or F#5 that's too sharp, there will be a very fast M17 that is quite noticeable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My recollection of the stock VT tunings for Baldwins is that the tenor wound strings get tuned a bit too flat, which would also contribute to pretty wild M17s up around there, particularly at the treble break.</div>
<div><br></div>Otherwise, did you talk about voicing at all?<div><br>-- <br>JF<br>
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