Going over it twice

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/21/00 10:12:18 AM Central Daylight Time, 
istuner@islandia.is writes:

<< when one encounters a piano with the bass relatively sharp compared to
 other parts of the piano regardless of overall pitch, does that not
 indicate out of tuneness because of humidity changes?  
 (Bass strings being longer and therefore requiring more change in
 soundboard volume for the same amount of pitch fluctuation for the shorter
 strings.)
 
 Kristinn Leifsson, >>


The way I understand it, when you encounter a piano with a sharp bass, the 
whole piano has gone sharp, but just before you got to the piano, it was on 
it's way flat again, and the treble had a head start on it. The lower treble, 
with the bridge more towards the middle of the soundboard, goes out of tune 
more and faster than the bass, where the bridge is closer to the rim.

Willem