[pianotech] string "exercising"

[David Love]

Haven't noticed that but on pianos where the angle is severe between the
tuning pin and speaking length I take care to lower the pitch before raising
it just to be sure that it's not frozen there. Usually the bass strings
operate at a relatively low BP, at least when compared with the upper
treble, but not always.   

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Daniel Carlton
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:38 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] string "exercising"

hi guys

this subject reminds me of something i wanted to ask everybody.
has anyone else noticed that when doing a major pitch change on a  
piano that hasn't been tuned in a very long time, that the bass  
strings seem more brittle and likely to break the first pass, but  
after the first pass, seem more elastic?

Daniel Carlton