Hi Ron, So if humidity *is* finally balanced properly would you then consider tapping strings down on the bridge? At 11:56 AM 04/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: >>Hi Ron, >> Your observations give an excellent eplaination of why there is a >>need to seat strings periodically on performance piano's. > >Not as far as I'm concerned. I don't advocate seating strings with tuning. >I consider it to be abusive to the bridge. If it's absolutely imperative >the piano be perfect, it seems only reasonable to expect the environment to >be just as perfect so the bridge won't move in the first place. Why is it >expected of the tuner to come up with some magic way of making years of >climatic abuse miraculously disappear long enough to get through a >performance, and why would the tuner do something to the long term >detriment of the instrument to support the illusion that everything is >under control? Sorry, count me out on that one. >Ron N Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts mailto:drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.xoasis.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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