> > ...I would like to give an unscientific, but real world account... > Anecdotal evadance, though conindered "weak" by scientific standards, can still valuable if accurate. More importantly, anecdotal evadance is powerful in the human mind. We have a tendency to privately judge the trustworthiness of scientific explanations and models by how well those models explain things that happen to us personally. A primary weakness to anecdotal evidence it that it tends to grant unwarranted significance to anomalies. I am no expert in piano wire physics, but my initial guess ifs that the Petrov must have either gotten more than the usual number of tunings before it was shipped and/or (more likely) it had been sitting in warehouses and store floors for a year or years before it was sold "new". (Do Petrov's fly off the shelf?) Maybe it got most of it's stretch out before you encountered it? Any other ideas? [k] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080509/bb43379d/attachment-0001.html
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