----- Original Message ----- From: <Tvak@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: Re: PitchLock > List > > Whether this little device would increase tuning stability is one thing... > What good is coupling TWO strings together to keep them in tune with each > other, when there's a third string right next to them going its own way? > > However, I wonder if this would help to eliminate false beats in older > pianos? Does this little metal band actually provide a new termination point for > the strings? > > > Tom Sivak > Or it could give false beats. It should certainly give the two lucky strings a little more mass than the third one. plus in the pictures it looks like it pulls one string more away from the bridge pin while pulling the other closer. Yes temination issues. But hearing is believing,,,sorry I did not come across audios at the web site. Hope to see, scuse me, hear it at Nashville. If I were going on imagination I would couple the two outside strings and tune the inside string to that. But what do I know execpt if they try it, that should be worth a one hour consultation fee. How did this idea ever occur? Does he do that to the bichords in the bass? Should be with wonderous effects if it works at all. Then the whole piano should be bi-chord then. (That is another hour.) Will we see pianos in the 21st century going back to two strings? I am not holding my breath --- first we have to get past "modern innovations" like mixded fiber "felt" hammers, wooden parts made of compressed sawdust, a bucket of water hung 3 inches from the middle of the soundboard or machine produced temperaments other than ET. Any change has to stand the test of hearing, ie producing a noticible and pleasing difference to the ear.
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