ZW - Charles Ball is the only one who touched upon your question about voicing consequences, and seemed to have had no negative experiences, however, I would guess that your own such ecperience would depend upon the degree of string leveling that had been done. It would certainly seem possible that significantly corrected terminations would change level in the process of dropping pitch, and pulling back up. I'm sure you could get a fascinating study out of the project. David S At 09:50 PM 7/29/2010, you wrote: >Yes, my plan is to borrow an ETD (some of my best friends use ETDs) >to set the starting A. Like Ron says, there's a learning curve to >the ETDs, and one concert at the height of the Fall concert season >is probably not a good starting point. > >That said, I brought it up more to see if anyone had any experience >with other issues related to large pitch changes. Apart from >putting in a bunch of time on tuning, is there anything to watch out >for relating to strings, hammers, voicing issues, etc.? > >Thanks, >Zeno W > > >On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Ron Nossaman ><<mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: >Porritt, David wrote: >I'm just saying get the starting A (or C if that's what is >familiar) and go ahead and tune it by ear but with an >accurate starting point. > > >Ah, I see. >Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100730/10bb4b37/attachment-0001.htm>
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