Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy Shuster" <charter1400@charter.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: May 28, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right


>
> Thanks, Del; I think I was confusing the backscale vibration and the
> frontscale vibration, just as you say.
>
> I was thinking of energy coming from the hammer to the string, and trying
to
> keep it in the speaking length.  If I understand correctly, this applies
to
> the frontscale.  Backscale vibrations, being sympathetic, don't happen
> (primarily) from the struck string.  As you said in another post,
braiding
> prevents, rather than damps, sympathetic vibration, and therefore...
well,
> I dunno (my brain hurts to think of it), but it's not like having a mushy
> termination in the speaking length.
>
> --Cy Shuster--
> Rochester, MN


That's right...I think.

Del