In a message dated 5/30/98 9:57:32 PM EST, fish@communique.net writes: << Another problem I have is in the bass bichords. I used to put a strip between each two bichords, tune the left string of the first bichord and the right string of the second. Then I would pull the strip and tune the other two strings. This works great until you put your lever on the wrong tuning pin or you recheck the section and find that something has slipped. Then figuring out which string is tuned to the SAT is awkward. If I use a rubber wedge in that section, then the reference-tuned string is always the left one and the right string was tuned to it. If you have a better way to use a strip in this section, I would surely like to hear it! >> Hi Warren, I don't know if this would help but I mute every string in the bichord section with the strip and work through, left string, pull strip, right string, left string, pull strip, right string..... Hope this is clear and may be of some help. This is the only section I use a strip on since I started using an SAT. Like you, I always found the strip to be a problem in the upper part of verticals. When I was doing exclusively aural tuning, I stripped the bass and most of the tenor. Have to confess that my muting patterns change every now and then. I get bored or think I can do it faster another way. So the usual disclaimers apply. Hope to see you in Providence. Dale Dale Probst Registered Piano Technician Ward & Probst, Inc. Piano & Organ Service Wichita Falls,TX
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