stretching wire -- an anecdotal analysis

[kurt baxter]

>
> *It's not me that says that. Everything even approaching a credible source
> that I've been able to find says that is the case. I found hundreds of
> references to high temperature creep, but nothing saying there is measurable
> creep at room temperatures and the stress levels in piano strings.
> ...
> Replace a string in an already stable piano, and you can get it stable in
> a week.*



Even so, that pitch drop  has to come from SOMEWHERE.
I have heard the same statement that wire "creeping" stretch is physically
impossible, and
it seems unlikely that the physicists are massive wrong on this..

here is one example of a frustrated physicist ranting about the belief of
piano tuners:
http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200204/2002.04.02.08.html


But still, my question stands: on a otherwise perfectly settled, broken in
piano, why
does a replacement new string drop and drop and drop? Where is it all coming
from?

Clearly, someone is missing something.




Kurt Baxter
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