pitch rise /was: no tunings, no drivel

Don drose@dlcwest.com
Fri, 11 May 2001 01:45:11 -0600


Hi Duncan,

I have never come to a piano to find a string broken from environmental
change. So I have nothing *to* explain. Perhaps I am not understanding what
you are trying to say.

At 08:13 PM 05/11/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Don,
>
>>>I have measured ase much as a 40 cent pitch >>change at
>>>A4  (A450) (10 hertz), but I have never seen a >>string break from this
>change.
>
>ok, how do you explain strings that do break under these conditions  ( I
>mean, the highest wound strings, when the piano rises due to weather
>conitions ) ?
>
>Duncan


Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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