stretching wire

[William R. Monroe]

Duly noted.

I think the point for me is that there are other factors to consider re: 
pitch drops in pianos than long-term elastic deformation of wire, and they 
shouldn't be dismissed without due diligence.

William R. Monroe


>
>>As noted before, the pin would only have to move about 5 thousandths of an 
>>inch (a green punching ;-]  ) toward the capo to give us a pitch change of 
>>about a semitone at 200lbs and 6" in length, for 17 ga wire, as Ron N 
>>wrote.
>
> That was just an illustration. In a real piano, there is more involved 
> string length than just the speaking length, so the tuning pin would need 
> to move more for a given pitch change.
>
> Ron N
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>