Davitt Moroney wrote:
> but I know some excellent tuners who tune the treble first, based on 
> this principle that it then gives the treble a chance to move when the 
> bass is tuned; and such strings that have been tuned, checked and 
> retuned, tend to stay more in tune. This approach, of course doesn't 
> work if you don't do the rechecking. I don't use this method 
> personally, but I do respect the method of tuners who do it correctly.
I have always-tuned treble first after setting the scale, for give the 
piano tuners term.   But what a posting from Davitt which from my point 
of view was full of sound advice.   Checking should always be done 
throughout the tuning and if you are finding an instrument that is 
wandering around as you work, do not labour on the current tuning but 
very quickly run through the work and then start again creating a finer 
tuning.   Speed is always the best way to stabilise and instrument and 
two or three very quick tunings to pitch will usually do the trick.

M

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