----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Shuster" <charter1400@charter.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: May 28, 2003 11:24 AM Subject: Re: Stringing Braid and the perception of doing it right > > Thanks, Del; I think I was confusing the backscale vibration and the > frontscale vibration, just as you say. > > I was thinking of energy coming from the hammer to the string, and trying to > keep it in the speaking length. If I understand correctly, this applies to > the frontscale. Backscale vibrations, being sympathetic, don't happen > (primarily) from the struck string. As you said in another post, braiding > prevents, rather than damps, sympathetic vibration, and therefore... well, > I dunno (my brain hurts to think of it), but it's not like having a mushy > termination in the speaking length. > > --Cy Shuster-- > Rochester, MN That's right...I think. Del
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