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From: Richard_Weintrag~abylon.montreal.qc.ca (Richard Weintrager)
Date: 15 May 1998 15:40:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Re: bet you can't tune straight! and Why do...

Re(3): bet you can't tune straight! and Why do...

>that tuning them off the instrument was nowhere good enough
>and have had to go to a different method now) I tuned them
>perfectly ... they played beautifully in tune.... er... for me!!!!
>But not for Winslow, or Bobbie, or our first couple of customers....
>had to do a quick shuffle.... 'cos I was doing what I normally do as
>a player... and played the durn notes into tune.... I have my old
>stainless steel instrument. and the octaves really are dreadful when
>you loosly blow the notes as chords.... but when I play them, they are
>so in tune that one professional player made comment about
>how superb the tuning of octaves was!!!! No... i don't know
>how i do it... my ear/body feedback system does tho.

Supoiblely relatable-to... .

>What is your handle on this one???

JUST WHAT YOU STATED.

YOUR own body and ear and th'whole resonant feedback
take-in system of ourown anatomies determines what's to
be considered in-tune or out-of-tune;
practically speaking.

Richard -