On 4/29/07, RicB <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > > No John > > He does not just use Pythagoras' theorem just as you did. And if you stop > up and look closely I am sure you will understand this. When you change the > deflection you change three things... its length, tension, and frequency. > The new length you can calculate just as you did. But that leaves you with > two unknowns... the new tension and the new frequency. > No Rick, the piano is retuned to the proper frequency after the recalulation of length. Then you have a bunch of things that are not unknown anymore. You really don't think a bunch of piano tooners are going to hammer a string 0.5mm down into the bridge and not tune the dang thing, do you? Keith Roberts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070429/f9b38940/attachment.html
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