Inviting Flames was Re: Never Been Tuned

[Alan Barnard]

Ah, the plot sickens.

Those are excellent obserevations; you'd make a good detective. 

Maybe (Egad!) I'm wrong. 

But I still want to know what would permanently change in a piano to take
pitch down—in this case 700 cents! 

I can't believe the wire stretches that much or the case warps that much or
the plate shifts (at all) .... it's a heck of a mystery. Where does the
tension go?

Maybe this piano went to a spa, got a really good massage, and took Vallium
...

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 06/29/2005 3:36:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Inviting Flames was Re: Never Been Tuned
>
> At 02:43 PM 6/29/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >Does anyone reaaaaaaallllllllllly believe that tuning pins don't turn 
> >backwards over time?
>
> Well, all the dust is on top. If they were slowly rotating over time,
would 
> the undersides be whistle clean?  And the coils don't seem to have fewer 
> turns on them. Wouldn't they have at about a 1/2 turn less if they had 
> rotated enough for a perfect fourth?
>
> The piano was in Southern Ontario. The climate was pretty awful for wood 
> and glue preservation.
>
> Actually, I have no idea if they un-turn or not.
>
> Susan 
>
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