At 10:18 PM -0400 8/21/03, bases-loaded@juno.com wrote: >Again, I hate to see that kind of work, and would never dream of >installing a string like that, but it doesn't change the fact that I >just don't see any correlation between funky coils and perfect ones >in terms of tuning stability. Not yet. At 10:26 PM -0400 8/19/03, Bill Ballard wrote: >I remember Willard Sims of Baldwin (at either the Philly National in >the early 80s, or the Cincinnati in '78), saying that the factory >was interested in just how necessary tight tuning pin coils were for >tuning stability, so they strung a piano up with sloppy coils and >sent it on down the line, looking for comments on tuning stability. >It apparently was no less stable than any of the pianos with tight >coils. This whole discussion of beckets and coils, as it has veered off from the thread of tuning stability seems to be a slight twisting of Murphy's Law: if it might, it must. As Lenny Bruce said, "true more in general than specifically". Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "I gotta go ta woik...." ...........Ian Shoales, Duck's Breath Mystery Theater +++++++++++++++++++++
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