Old Bosie

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

Cy,
It is my understanding that A0 is just slightly behind the tension of C8 on 
a short grand/upright.  Those heavily wound strings are actually under a 
lot of tension.  I was taught that the tension on a piano is roughly a 
curve with the high points on each end of the piano and the lowest point 
near the middle.  In practice I've come to suspect that tension changes 
significantly at the tenor break.
Any engineers out there to comment?

Andrew Anderson
Las Cruces, NM
At 10:11 AM 1/6/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:57 AM
>Subject: Re: Old Bosie
>
>
> > Hi Cy,
> >
> > Why do you think bass strings are under less tension?
>
>Because they're lower pitch.
>
> > Or do you mean the
> > tension of all the treble strings exceeds the tension of all the bass
>strings?
>
>That would also be true, and would probably be the major effect to worry
>about, right?
>
>--Cy Shuster--
>Rochester, MN
>
>
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