At 17:43 25-08-16, Shields, Michael wrote:

 >On the question of "what is meant in this context by a long
 >and a short time" one might follow Ibo's lead and say that a "short
 >time" between plucks is regular plucking every half a second or less,
 >and a "long time" involves a single pluck (or very few plucks) between
 >each string manipulation, usually a 2-second interval or longer.

By the time half a second has gone by, the sharpness that I noted in 
my original post has gone away.  This is the time which I usually 
tune.  It usually seems to work for sustained notes also.

 >Like Ibo, I prefer the "single pluck" method as I feel it lets me zoom
 >in better mentally on beats in the less audible harmonics.  It is
 >probably a bit slower as well as a bit more precise, so it may be more
 >rewarding for instruments with very little inharmonicity and just one
 >or two 8ft registers, where perfect tuning is more realisable than
 >with a greater number of strings.

 >I should add that I have no experience of keeping 4ft strings in tune.

Man, you havent lived!

;)

David

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