See my other post in response to JD but if the soundboard is transmitting energy back to the strings then it may not matter if the duplexes are tuned or not, they will react to the energy being provided by the soundboard either way. 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: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:42 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning the duplex sections On 3/10/2011 12:57 AM, George F Emerson wrote: >All I can offer is subjective observation that the tone > is noticeably weakened when duplex segments are muted out. I don't know what that is, but it's certainly not logic. Muted rear duplexes are by no stretch of hallucination equivalent to un tuned rear duplexes. As much discussion as this has received on this list, I'm very disappointed that thirty people didn't jump on this. Ron N
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