> What do you mean you disagree! If the tension in the back-length is low > and seating the strings evens out the tension, then the tension and > pitch of the speaking length will fall. This is your experience and > mine and anybody else's. I disagree that back scale tensions are always, or even typically lower than speaking length tensions, much less that they continue to get lower over time compared to speaking lengths. I also disagree that the pitch lowering we hear when seating strings is necessarily coming from the back scale. >> Pretty much every living soul out there has access to an ETD capable >> of measuring pitch levels quite accurately, and calculating tension >> levels and changes in speaking length and back scale before and after >> seating strings and noting a pitch drop in the speaking length. > > Quite so. What one earth makes you think I am contradicting that. What > I took issue with is your previous remark that: Instead of arguing something I didn't say, I thought some actual data accumulated by as many interested individuals as are willing and with no argument to support, would easily answer a few questions that endless discussion obviously won't. Let's find out, for a change. > This seems to contradict everything else that you are saying. Not if you had read and understood what I've been saying. Ron N
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