I suppose I could have worded it more precisely but it's not at all nonsense and it's easy to demonstrate if you're open to it. You can flex the pin forward while you are turning it such that the pitch actually drops in spite of the fact that you are turning it in the sharp direction. Then when you release the flex which, in this case, is pushing the pitch to the flat side more than the twisting of the pin is pushing it to the sharp side, the pitch will climb to your target. The tension in the first segment never rises above the target tension. A controlled flexing like this in which the flexing offsets the twisting means that the higher amount of tension often left in that first section (which tends to cause stability problems with the pitch moving flat) never occurs. That's my point but feel free to parse it any way that gets you off. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 6:59 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hammer Technique: was Q & A Roundtable On 2/2/2011 2:07 AM, David Love wrote: > Overshooting means that you increase the tension in the first segment of the > string (the segment leaving the tuning pin) to the first friction point > before the speaking length moves. Nonsense. That has nothing whatsoever to do with overshooting. If you're going to raise the pitch of the speaking length with the tuning pin, you'll increase the tension in the first segment first and most. That's not hammer technique. That's kindergarten physics. >If you tune with counter pressure applied to the > tuning lever that compensates for the twisting of the pin, you can move the > pin in the block without increasing the tension in that first section, no > overshoot. The risk of exceeding the break point then is minimized. Absolute nonsense. It's still the higher tension in the first segment that pulls the string from the speaking length through the agraffe or capo. Ron N
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