<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>He always tunes this way, said he learned it from his days as a stringer.<BR><BR>><BR>><BR>> thanks,<BR>><BR>> Mike = Spalding RPT<BR>><BR>--<BR>Richard Brekne<BR>RPT, N.P.T.F.<BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I've been thinking = about this Richard, and I really need to try it. If it does indeed work out the way = you say, it could really be revolutionary. On the other hand, the only way = you can tune in this kind of disjointed way is with a machine, and for hundreds = of years, there were no machines, no computers. I've thought about many = things while I've been tuning, and sometimes I think that some tuners stretch = so much in that area because they know that when they pull in the unisons the = pitch will come down. Just random thoughts. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin E. = Ramsey</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>