Accuholism- New machine for TunerJeff (gasp!)

[Ryan, Philip]

Dear Steve,

Enjoyed your comments to TunerJeff on his case of accuholism.  Agree
with your kindly and well-choosed words to accutuners like myself.  I
have always tuned unison on plain wire strings by ear, but would like to
follow your advice on individual string unisons.  My question is how do
you mute the side strings efficiently when tuning each string by itself?
Any advice?

Thanks,
Phil Ryan
Associate, PTG

Stephen F Schell wrote:
>
> Dear Jeff and List,
>
>
>
> Congratulations on Santa's thoughtful baby blue gift! I'm sure that you
> will find that, over time, that it is truly "the gift that keeps on
> giving". I really enjoyed your comments, as many of them rang true and
> are probably almost universal.
>
>                                                      I agree with your
> comments about the high quality unisons possible with the SAT. I have
> been tuning all plain wire unisons one string at a time for about five
> years now. You seem worried about achieving good stability. I think that
> , with practice, your stability may actually improve. Mine sure has. You
> can blast away on that single string until you are confident that it is
> stable, and at the pitch you intended for it, not the pitch the
> reference string has drifted to while you were tuning the unison. I
> still tune all wound string unisons by ear, however. These unisons
> generally have much more disagreement among the different partial levels
> than plain wire unisons, and as you said, the SAT can only listen to one
> partial at a time.
>            Enjoy your new SAT, TunerJeff, and please let us know how
> things work out.
>
>                                          Steve Schell
>
>                                      stfrsc@juno.com
>