diff --git a/src/external/tunings/README.txt b/src/external/tunings/README.txt
index bd610bfc..5b4f8232 100644
--- a/src/external/tunings/README.txt
+++ b/src/external/tunings/README.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Based on the Surge tuning library, revision d9660ef, with small modifications
+Based on the Surge tuning library, revision 0ba372f, with small modifications
 https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/tuning-library
diff --git a/src/external/tunings/src/Tunings.cpp b/src/external/tunings/src/Tunings.cpp
index 87e72ca9..7952328c 100644
--- a/src/external/tunings/src/Tunings.cpp
+++ b/src/external/tunings/src/Tunings.cpp
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ namespace Tunings
         {
             lineno ++;
 
-            if (line.empty() || line[0] == '!')
+            if ((state == read_note && line.empty()) || line[0] == '!')
             {
                 continue;
             }
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ namespace Tunings
         while (std::getline(inf, line))
         {
             lineno ++;
-            if (line.empty() || line[0] == '!')
+            if (!line.empty() && line[0] == '!')
             {
                 continue;
             }