String massage

[Richard Brekne]

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Interesting "observation". Sounds sorta like Don's idea of second
guessing seasonal pitch change while tuning.

Personally I will massage a new string to stretch it out a bit
(quite a bit if its going to be used in a concert situation) but
otherwise my nice handy Schaff string tool stays comfortably in
the tool box unless I am seating strings to pins.

I have heard of folks even useing this tool to help in final
stages of tuning... always seemed like asking for instability to
me. But whatever works for you.

I view this tool primarilly as an aid in what often is called
"string voicing".

JMTAMHO

grin

Farrell wrote:

> My observation is that if you have massaged the string (that
> was flat to begin with) firmly enough (no whacking!) to
> stretch/raise the pitch of the backscale, the pitch of the
> speaking length will then be lowered until you raise the pitch
> by turning the tuning pin. Some of the pitch will come back up
> as the string cools.
>
>  Terry Farrell
> Piano Tuning & Service
> Tampa, Florida
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: thepianoarts
>      To: pianotech@ptg.org
>      Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:23 PM
>      Subject: Re: String massage
>
>
>                Ola,
>
>                I use the brass rod method in
>                setting unisons in pianos that
>                don't render well. One note:
>                rubbing and pushing down on the
>                wire will lower the pitch. Some
>                of this change is caused by heat,
>                allowing the wire to stretch, and
>                lower in pitch.  It is quite
>                dramatic how the pitch will
>                change from rubbing. Don't be
>                fooled...the pitch will creep
>                back up, within abount a minute.
>
>
>                Dan Reed
>
>                Dallas Chapter
>
>                Ola wrote:
>
>                Can it help me to stabilise the
>                pressure of the speaking and
>                nonspeaking areas if I massage
>                the string? Espessially in the
>                last one and a half octave. Will
>                it save me time and give me a
>                more stabile result? I've tried
>                it and noticed the string reacts
>                alot to it.
>
>
>                What part of the string do I
>                start with and how much massage
>                is needed?
>
>
>                Many Thanks
>
>                Ola Andersson
>
>
>           The Reply was
>           >
>           >> I had to pitch raise and tune a Rippen
>           today!
>           >> My question is:
>           >> Because of the  long "non speaking" area
>           of the string next to the pins.
>           >>(Sorry for my bad explaination but I'm
>           exhausted) you know what I mean. How
>           >>is the best way of doing this on a Rippen
>           (pitchraise + tune)? I suppose you
>           >>done some?
>
>           >My way, could be, pitch raise first,
>           gentle of course, then press down? and
>           >strike all the wire from the hitchpins to
>           the tuningpins to loose all the
>           >rusty points where the wire sticks to the
>           pins and
>           >Then press the sustain and BANGG all the
>           keys to equal all the
>           >tensionpartials.
>           >Well I could do it this way i think.
>
>           Rudyard,
>
>
>
>
--
Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no


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