Morons and best strings

[DICK BEATON]

When you folks talk about left and right strings....you should say whether
you are referring to a grand or an upright.   In a grand the left string
has the shortest waste length...opposite in an upright.  I suspect this has
a lot to do with which string goes out first.  
Dick RPT MT

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> From: Rob Stuart-Vail <rob_sv@email.msn.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Morons and best strings
> Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 4:30 PM
> 
> >>  >Rob: I also have noticed the same thing, that the right string of
the
> >unison is the most likely to go out.  I have always attributed this to
> >the fact that I tune the right string to the center and then the left to
> >center <<
> 
> Well, I should have mentioned that I tune the left string to the center,
and
> then the right string.  My general procedure is to set the temperament
and
> then tune the whole (stripped) mid section - then tune down through the
bass
> to the bottom.  Then I "tune out the strip" as I come up to the top
section,
> so it's left and then right strings being tuned.
> 
> I do this because I like to check and recheck those unisons in the mid
> section as I use them for reference while tuning  the upper sections.
> 
> But when I do find a drifter, it is usually the right string of the
unison.
> Sometimes it appears that it's both right and left strings; then I
realize
> that the center string has changed.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonifield/Poulson <bonifarm@oro.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Morons and best strings
> 
> 
> >Rob: I also have noticed the same thing, that the right string of the
> >unison is the most likely to go out.  I have always attributed this to
> >the fact that I tune the right string to the center and then the left to
> >center, assuming that the additional pounding on the strings may have
> >caused the muted right string to move while I am working on the left
> >string.  Maybe there is a different reason for this occasional slippage;
> >anyway, I make a practice of rechecking the whole unison before moving
> >on.  Even so, I will find on my final pass that the right string of fome
> >unisons will have moved more often than the left.  Patrick Poulson, RPT
> >
> 
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