beckets

[Bill Ballard]

At 10:18 PM -0400 8/21/03, bases-loaded@juno.com wrote:
>Again, I hate to see that kind of work, and would never dream of 
>installing a string like that, but it doesn't change the fact that I 
>just don't see any correlation between funky coils and perfect ones 
>in terms of tuning stability.  Not yet.

At 10:26 PM -0400 8/19/03, Bill Ballard wrote:
>I remember Willard Sims of Baldwin (at either the Philly National in 
>the early 80s, or the Cincinnati in '78), saying that the factory 
>was interested in just how necessary tight tuning pin coils were for 
>tuning stability, so they strung a piano up with sloppy coils and 
>sent it on down the line, looking for comments on tuning stability. 
>It apparently was no less stable than any of the pianos with tight 
>coils.

This whole discussion of beckets and coils, as it has veered off from 
the thread of tuning stability seems to be a slight twisting of 
Murphy's Law: if it might, it must. As Lenny Bruce said, "true more 
in general than specifically".

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"I gotta go ta woik...."
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