String Levelling

[DICK BEATON]

Richard and all..

I recall from 1975 class at Yamaha Little Red School House ....String
leveling is necessary due to the nature of piano wire.  It comes off a roll
and wants to go back into a roll.  A rather long wire on a grand will have
a curve in it due to this.  When you level it you are really strightening
it out to match it's neighbors.  The tension at pitch is not enough to pull
it straight!

Anyway I agree it hasn't received enough attention.  Same for a lot of
other things which makes this medium very interesting indeed!

Dick RPT MT

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> From: Richard Moody  <remoody@easnetsd.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: String Levelling
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 1997 10:03 PM
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> 	For the last 25 years I have been tuning unisons and not aware of
> them being "out of level"  Now I am wondering when this concept came
> into being, and why it was not mentioned by three tuners I would call
> masters whom I studied under, and again why in literature including
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>  Or maybe the question is, if you "level" strings and they are
> elastic, won't they tend to go out of "level" after a while?? 
> Moody 
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