At 03:15 PM 11/07/1999 +0000, you wrote: >Ron, > I agree we would have to account for the total "waste length" of every >string (whether toward tuning pin or hitch pin), and their relative >tensions, and the amount of friction involved, and bridge rise and roll, >to come to a complete analysis. I have certainly considered all these >factors in my musings while pitch raising/lowering for the ?thousandth >time. > The puzzle for me is that uprights and grands both show the same >tendency for the right string to move most, whether to a large or small >degree. Hitch pin waste lengths vary, but typically not by much on any >given piano. Tuning pin waste lengths vary pretty consistently, so that >on all grands the right tuning pin's waste length is longest for the >unison, while on an upright the right is shortest. So why isn't the >pattern reversed for uprights? > >Fred Fred, You got me there. I strip mute when tuning, and hadn't noticed the phenomenon. There has to be a real and rational cause and effect relationship of some sort though. Nothing happens arbitrarily (excluding the workings of people <G>). Ron N
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