selling the pitchraise:student's neurology and inappropriateaural reference

[Stephen Airy]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:10:13 EDT, HazenBannister@cs.com said:
> In a message dated 04/26/2002 7:30:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Good point! Especially in the bass. Especially on an older piano that has 
> > bass strings starting to get a little tubby. Bringing those up from a 
> > semi-tone flat can bring them from total drab tubbiness to a state where 
> > they have some significant life!
> > 
> > Terry Farrell
> >   
> > 
> 
> Terry,
>   Not only that,but the piano is engineered to have a certain amount of 
> tension,everything just works and sounds better.
> Haen Bannister 

That's interesting.  :)

On some bass notes, putting them 50 cents flat makes them sound better,
and on other notes pulling them up to 440 often breaks the strings.
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