B 458198 - string deflections - DOUBLE POSTING PROTOCOL

Kent Swafford kswafford@earthlink.net
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:31:17 -0500


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Sorry. I know better, but I just wanted to ask the question to the  
biggest possible pool of expertise.

Kent


On Sep 22, 2005, at 2:37 AM, David Skolnik wrote:

> It was inevitable.   Maybe it's occurred before and I haven't  
> caught it.  My history communicating with Ron hasn't been stellar,  
> and I could see it coming down the pike again.  Fortunately, it  
> occurred to me to check whether what I thought could not happen, in  
> fact, had.  It had.  Kent double posted the topic regarding B  
> 458198 to both pianotech AND Caut...a reasonable measure when  
> trying to engage the distinct constituencies of each list, though a  
> bit of a bother for those subscribed to both.  Using Eudora, I  
> filter my mail so that each is directed to its own mailbox.  I have  
> seen such double postings develop differently in the past.  This  
> time, there was a leak, a breech, if you will.  RonN  (mind you,  
> I'm not playing the blame game here), posting on Pianotech,  
> responded to information (the restringing and use of CA on the  
> pins) that Kent had only mentioned in a resopnse  on CAUT!  My  
> impression from seeing only the Pianotech discussion, and thus my  
> responses, were that RonN was making unfounded assumptions about  
> the piano's history that had never been stated.  If I were not  
> subscribed to both lists, or had not thought to check, our  
> exchanges would have probably continued on their ignoble, downward  
> spiral.
>
> So, what's my point.  In the past, I have tried to make clear and  
> apologize in advance for such double posting, recognizing the  
> annoyance it can cause those who subscribe to both.  It seems that,  
> perhaps it should be the responsibility of both the original  
> poster, as well as the responder, that any cross-list references  
> are made clear.
>
> So as not to hijack the original posting subject, I'll not include  
> any discussion of the technical substance in this post.  Anyway,  
> I'm glad we cleared that up.
>
> Peace (in honor of our temporarily absent data-cruncher),
>
> David Skolnik
>
>
>
> At 11:29 PM 9/21/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>>> I'm not sure what Ron means by the angle "self-correcting" unless  
>>> he is alluding to the rear pin's inevitable migration westward,  
>>> as the bridge splits become more pronounced.
>>
>> That's right, responding to Kent's comment on that very thing.
>>
>>
>>> Wouldn't epoxy address the present conditions?
>>
>> Not with CA already in there. From a practical standpoint, it  
>> doesn't much matter how cracked the bridge is on the back pin row,  
>> as long as the resulting offset angle is enough to clamp the  
>> string to the speaking length bridge pin, and the speaking length  
>> bridge pin is solid, you won't hear the problem.
>>
>> Ron N
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