<!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 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe you should keep on making soft = blows, but try to hit the key quickly, without listening to the note during 15 sec like = you said.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That way you'll be able to hear the = "attack" of the note, the first stage of the sound that is produced.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Having a clear and pure sounding attack = is very important for me, and I've never succeeded in having a clear attack when = tuning with listening to the note more than 2 or 3 seconds.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For me, when I tune, when my attack is = clear, the rest is also, and my unisson has enough "length" most of = times.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need much concentration right now to = make clean unissons on every note with this technique, that means it takes some = time to have a good eveness.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But since the beginning, you should = hear a difference, YOUR sound will be turning from black to white.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andre?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>