on 6/11/04 7:36 AM, ibetuner at ibetuner@sbcglobal.net wrote: > Please tell us more about open string tuning. Only 2 years new in the > business and still finding out what I don't know but getting better > hopefully. > > Never heard of open string tuning till your post. It's how everybody tuned until relatively recently---one mute, a tuning hammer, and that's it, tuning unisons as you go, using the wetware that the Creator gave ya. It requires you to have a pretty good aural idea of where you're going, but with practice, it's the most fun and, just as importantly, the most stable and eventually beautiful & musical way to tune---IMHO. My method of setting temperament is kind of unusual as well---I base it on a kind of "ladder" of fourths between F3 and F4, with the tonic starting at F3 and moving up a half step on each step of the ladder; each fourth is beating sharp in the same slow, lazy roll---usually between 1 & 2.5 bps---and the fifths are just a frog hair flat---no beat speed really discernible. When you start to listen to open, stock-still unisons, and learn that each pin movement subtly affects the pitch of the 3-string note, precision and magic start to happen, if your ears are any good and you like to tune. Hope this helps... David Andersen Malibu, CA
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