(information from Texas Flood - The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan, by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort) and the following interview: He therefore got some custom strings from GHS in the gauges of. René Martinez advised Stevie that if he continued doing this, eventually he wouldn't be able to play any more, due to too much damage to his finger tips. He would then use a nail file to file down any rough areas, so they did not catch on the strings.
#CONN STROBE TUNER ST11 SKIN#
Then he'd pull the finger away and he'd have a new layer of skin over the repair. Then he'd put a layer of super glue over the top of the hole.įinally, he'd press the finger onto either the palm of his hand, or a finger from the other hand until it stuck. These holes could be 1/4 inch deep and so he developed his own way of fixing them.įirstly he'd fill the holes with baking powder. I also use the slave window to tune ports as their relationship tends to fall within a 5th of their fundamental.Due to the intensity of Stevie's playing, together with the thickness of his strings, he quite often wore holes in his finger tips and caused them to bleed. This allows me to keep an eye on any extraneous partials or 'shoulder tones." It is set to start a triple octave above the primary window's fundamental and shows a 2nd, min3rd, maj3rd, 4th, and 5th above that. I use the slave function for my second window. If they do I will change that band to whatever the 3rd partial is. I keep the 4th in there as a checkpoint for when I am rough tuning and for when I am working on instruments that have a 3rd partial other than a 5th. My main window features the partials 1: 2: 8/3: 3 or fundamental:octave: compound 4th: compound 5th. I do feel like at that point I graduated from the laser as it drastically increased my ability to tune by ear until the last 5%. I used it for 6 months and it without a doubt made me a better tuner. I can conclusively say that Linotune is lightyears ahead of any of these tuners.Īlso in 2018, I received my Linotune laser. All of these I either repaired or hacked, making them even better machines and more adapted to my needs as a handpan tuner.
I spent 2018 working with all kinds of strobe tuners: Peterson 5000, Node7050, a custom Conn ST-11, and even a Conn ST-8 (serial number 0238). If you aren't a 'new-gen' tuner, I highly recommend the laser so you can rid yourself of tuner's neck! As a 'new-gen' tuner this means the Linotune Laser projection system doesn't work for me as it projects the strobe action. I turn my strobe movement to ÷5 so I am not distracted by the rapid movement. I have been accused of being a 'new-gen' tuner as I don't pay too much attention to the strobes and their directional movement as I tend to watch the +/- cents. It educated both my hands and my ears and helped bridge the gap between the two. It would give me immediate feedback after each hammer stroke showing me EXACTLY what happened to each partial. While learning to tune, I quickly realized that Linotune could be more than a tuner, it could be a teacher. I was highly aware of its power before I became a tuner, but it wasn't until I picked up a hammer that it began to reveal its true potential. I am of the opinion that this program represents a quantum leap in regards to tuning related software, especially when working with tuned steel. Within two weeks (!!!!), he had proof of concept and only three months after that he had a working program.
A German computer programmer, handpan enthusiast, and longtime community member named Lino saw a need for a tuning program and took it upon himself to create one.
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