This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks for all of the input on string breakage. Fred, I am thinking about recent Yamaha P-202's and Steinway uprights where my unisons were ruined in the treble from going sharp. I do have a hard test blow. I always assumed, and was told, it was flagpoling and capo bearing, etc. I'll be looking at that, especially on these pianos. Thanks to all. Lance Lafargue, RPT Mandeville, LA New Orleans Chapter, PTG lancelafargue@bellsouth.net 985.72P.IANO -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Fred S. Sturm Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:27 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: String breakage, drifting sharp When I first got the "sharp test blow" religion, maybe 15 years ago, I tried it out on a concert grand. Boy, was I impressed by how far those high treble notes were falling. I was sure that I had always left the piano _way_ unstable. Got done with the tuning and checked it out, and was shocked to find that the top two octaves had drifted considerably sharp, and the unisons I had sweated so much over were gone, too. More recently, since using an ETD, I have often noted, mostly in the top half octave, that notes will be consistently a couple cents sharp. A few not so terribly hard blows and they come right down to pitch. Then, the day after or a week after or whenever I next see the piano, I find the same phenomenon. Stability is a very amorphous thing. Of course, it depends a lot on how much friction there is in the capo (or often between string and felt in the agraffe section). I don't think it's possible to leave a piano in such a stable tuning condition that "savagely hard" playing won't have an effect. Not that I don't keep trying. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico Mark Cramer wrote: >snip< BTW, after the tendonitis, I used a striker for a while, still with a good blow. Though easier on the body parts, but found the capo sections would tend to drift sharp, and this is a discussion in itself.>snip<Mark Cramer,Brandon University ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/25/19/cd/1c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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