I am not in the habit of discussing caut threads with my family at the dinner table, but just the other night I told them that we have pretty much dispelled the old myth I have been mouthing all my career as to why pianos change pitch more in the lowest unwrapped wire than elsewhere. When they asked what the "real" reason is, I said that we do not yet know for sure, and it may take weeks or months or years to nail it down, but when we do, it will be a major breakthrough in our collective understanding of the beast. And we will be making an historical contribution to piano technology (which we could count as yet another gift from caut to the greater industry). Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 6:31 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] pre-stretching new string? <div id=AOLMsgPart_0_ff5ba827-c53c-466a-ab80-7bf8256edb70 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"> > I happy to step away since this doesn seem to be going anywhere > anyway. The issue of why certain sections of pianos go out of tune more > than others I would think has some relevance for those designing scales, > rescaling or otherwise trying to understand how and why their pianos > will react to seasonal changes the way they doerhaps not. > > David Love It does to me, but apparently very few others. Ron N </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <a href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437" target="_blank">AOL.com</a>. </div>