strip muting: pitch question

[Don]

Hi Wim,

If it makes *no* difference, then how do you explain the necessity for a
greater over pull if only one wire per note is tuned first?

At 09:19 AM 8/20/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-08-19 07:58:45 EDT, you write:
>
><< 
> I looked at the archives (strip muting) but don't see an answer to this
> question:
> 
> Is the center string of a trichord in a piano's midsection less likely to
> shift in pitch than the outer strings during a tuning?
> 
> This has been my impression over the years.  I thought about it recently
> when I had the opportunity to do an RCT tuning for the first time and was
> following the suggestions of the owner of the RCT, to "start with A1 and use
> only one rubber mute" (which I did).
> 
> Can't make much of a judgement based on one tuning, but I missed the T-strip
> a lot.  'Course,  I missed my blankie, too,  when they took that away from
> me.
> 
> Rob Stuart-Vail
>  >>
>
>
>Rob:
>
>It is my impression that none of the strings shift in pitch. I am of the
>belief that it is the increase preasure on the bridge that causes pitches to
>change during a tuning, unless, of course, the pin wasn't set properly, or the
>string wasn't stabalized. 
>
>The contention seems to be that starting on A0 is putting preasure on the
>bridge in a different way than starting in the middle and going up or down. I
>have done tunings three ways. Strip mute, and tune from the middlle down and
>then up (aurally). Strip mute and start at A0,  and started at A0 with a
>rubber mute. My conclusion is that there is no difference in the outcome. 
>
>Willem Blees RPT
>St. Louis
>
>
Regards,
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