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[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 18:45 2/8/2007, you wrote:
>Yesterday I was tuning a 100 year old Bechstein where most of the 
>single bass strings were dead. So remembering what was mentioned on 
>the list a while back, I proceeded to lower their tension and beat 
>the hell out of them by pounding on the keys. The trick worked; you 
>can actually hear the point at which they come right while beating 
>them. The strings suddenly start sounding metallic. I can only 
>surmise that the strings are dead because they are so stiff. 
>Pounding them seems to release the coils or windings and makes the 
>strings more pliable.
>
>AF


My theory is that you are loosening and ridding the string of a dust 
loading which has been impeding free vibration.



Conrad Hoffsommer
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