Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right

[Cy Shuster]

OK, then, I wonder if there could be a different way to mute those sections
that could keep more energy in the entire system?

I imagine (don't know) that those string segments still vibrate against the
braiding felt (perhaps more slowly).  This seems like a waste of perfectly
good kinetic energy.  If they could be made stiffer, or have more mass,
wouldn't their energy be reflected back into the speaking length, the same
way we want rims to be rigid?

Adding mass could have more side effects (damping soundboard motion); what
about snap-on sleeves of some kind?  You'd have to prevent buzzing somehow.
Could they even be coupled across each other in a way that would still allow
tuning movement?  Stiff plastic sheet, a few inches wide?

--Cy Shuster--
Rochester, MN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right


> >If it were easy to mute just individual strings, would you start with no
> >braid, and just try to identify the individual "zingers"?  I'm wondering
if
> >this would result in more sustain, or a fuller tone, than with braiding
> >entire sections.
> >
> >--Cy Shuster--
>
> It does help sustain, and makes more sound, at the expense of some
"noise".
>
> Ron N