At 11:47 AM 8/24/2006 -0500, you wrote: >But as Ron N. asked, I still don't understand why "doping" the pin block >would cause extra stress on the bridge??? > >Avery Avery, I'm not Ron N. or Julia, as they would both be VERY quick to point out, but I'll put out a possible cause/effect sort of thing, anyway... If "doping" the pinblock is an effort to make tuning pins hold at a tension commensurate to that needed to tune the piano at a standard pitch, then, if the treatment is successful, and the piano is then brought up to that standard pitch, the total tension on the instrument will be higher than in it's untunable state and (big caveat coming...) if there is any downbearing on the bridge, there will be more pressure on the bridge. Am I close?? Conrad Hoffsommer All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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