Hi David, How did you evaluate the difference between unisons "as you go" and the strip muting method? When I changed from two mutes to one split mute the saving in time per tuning was around 20 minutes. Pitch correction has very little to do with the soundboard, and a lot to do with hitch pins, plate flex, and flag poling of tuning pins. At 12:06 AM 3/2/2007 -0700, you wrote: >I;ve tuned both ways (unisons as you go and unisons after all the >center strings are tuned) and I don’t find unisons-as-you-go to be >any more stable. Unless the pitch was way off. But in that case, I do a >pitch correction anyhow, which gets everything close enough that it >doesn’t matter when the unisons are tuned. A few beats difference in >pitch between unison strings isn’t enough tension difference to make >the wire pull through two bridge pins and around the hitch pin. Nor does a >few beats difference in pitch on a few strings here and there change the >downward pressure on the soundboard enough to affect stability. And >don’t counter with a reply citing statistics from a major pitch >correction of ALL the strings. The point (of strip muting) for >me is to avoid the tedium of pounding the same note over and over as you >tune all three strings in a row, instead of spreading the tedium out over >time in order to keep your sanity. -- David Nereson Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner
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