by slimbo » Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:43 pm
Sorry guy's, seem like the two posts have got mixed up.
The first post was about how you would deal with the 4 and eight 8 string moving to the required tuning, but not returning back to it's original setting,i.e. e to f= ok but on letting it off, comes back sharp, and also E to Eb and again letting it off and it comes back flat.
This can be a self inflicted situation, and the more you try to correct it the worse it gets.
The second post is just a question on how you tune your steel, some tone tune, some use a standard tuner, some use a Peterson, and so on.
I used to tune to 440, but was never happy with the tuning in certain chord structures.
Now I use a Peterson and it's about as close as you can get, well, for me anyway, but then, no tuning is ever going to tune to full satisfaction, it just wont happen, do you remember the tower with a roller behind the nut, do any of you still have them, and did they ever do the job.
The instrument is evolving all the time, and these ideas keep popping up, and will continue to do so, and what works for one won't allways work for another, it's all in the ear, and mine aint that good.
HAVE I OPENED A CAN OF WORMS OR WHAT?.