I sent this yesterday, but don't know if it went through. So here it is again. On 11/7/07, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > In other words, it's the bends. OK, I'll ask questions because I can't observe a new string right now in order to answer this experimentally. So if it is all in the bends, theoretically one could fully stabilize a string at one session, right? I haven't ever tried to verify that because I've been told for years that it *always* takes time for stabilization to occur. (I.e., because the wire is stretching. Maybe I need to occasionally switch out of lemming mode. "But my mentor said....") It follows that if stabilization is immediately possible, why does it take up to a year for strings to stabilize in a new piano? Is it because the cost of labor to stabilize would outweigh the benefit of immediate stabilization? JF
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC