Pitch raising technique

[Larry J. Messerly]

The talk recently on this list about whole step tuning and muting every
other note after the center string is tuned got me to thinking.

A couple of pitch raises this week (using SAT II), I tuned from A0 with
no over-shoot in the bass, at the plain strings, using 2 mutes(or a split
mute), tuned center string (F3 for example) with pitch raise system of
SAT II and then moved mute, tuned left string of F3 and center of F#3,
move mute, tune left of F#3 and center of G3  ... and so on for an
octave, then went backwards and tuned the right strings of all notes,
then continued up from where I had stopped to go back and tune the right
strings. Takes longer to write than to do. I did the second tuning from
C8 down, checking as I went. when I got to the bass it was very close,
the bottom octave almost right on, and A4 came out at 440.

If it didn't actually save any time, at least it brought a refreshing
change to the pattern.

Larry Messerly,RPT
Prescott/Phoenix