beckets

Ron Nossaman RNossaman@cox.net
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:20:08 -0500


>Now Ron stop and think a minute if the coil are so loose that merely
>tightening them up causes a "quarter semitone drop" then the piano need 
>that stinkin
>pitch raise anyway didn't it????

No it didn't, which is exactly the point. I've tuned pianos regularly for 
years and years with no stability problems, then gotten a big pitch drop in 
a string when I tapped a coil just looking for trouble to see what would 
happen. Left alone, these coils are stable.


>BTW what is a "quarter semitone"? :-)
>Jim Bondi (Canada)

A two-bit pitch change.

Ron N


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