baoli liu wrote: > snip < > So it is easy to conclude that the whole > tension of a piano will increase 4.5% for each 4 cents > pitch raise,if the piano is not originally way out of > tune. Thanks, baoli, for distilling this. Even simpler, one could say each cent of pitch change equals a little more than 1 percent change in tension - "about one percent change in tension per cent change in pitch" or 1%/cent. I've always wanted to know this. Many thanks! -Mark Schecter
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