String Levelling guestions

[Richard Moody]

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> From: JIMRPT <JIMRPT@aol.com>
> To: A440A@aol.com; owner-pianotech@ptg.org; pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re:  Re: String Levelling guestions
> Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 2:09 PM
> 
> 
> In a message dated 4/7/98 11:28:35 AM, A440A@aol.com wrote:
> 
> <<Gina writes:
> 
> <<"it seems to me that the force of the hammer repeatedly hitting the
> string in varying degrees (from pp to fff) could cause the strings to
alter
> planes.">>
> 
> 
> Ed wrote:
> <<" Greetings all, 
>        IMHO< what it does is alter their phase.  The individual strings
may
> vibrate at exactly the same speed, but the uneven impetus that results
from
> "unlevel" strings causes one or more of the strings vary in
amplitude.">>
> 
>  Ed;
>  in this case you are both correct in that Gina was answering Richards'
> question re: what causes a string to get out of level after having been
> leveled.  Or said another way, she was addressing a string(s) at rest.
Your
> answer is correct as pertaining to a string(s) in motion. 
>  Have I suceeded in muddying up the subject? :-)
> Jim Bryant (FL)

Well it is kind of hard to evalute tone when the strings are at rest. : )
On the other hand it is impossible to detect unlevelness when the strings
aren't at rest. Although there is one method that claims it does.....

Richard Muddenough