<< 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.. >> There is approximately 400 cents worth of slack in the coil, after being brought up to pitch and pounded for a while. I don't know if it should be called stretching for this slack to gradually unwind, but if the coil is not squeezed tightly, most of this slack will come out over the first year or two. Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos.<BR> (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)</HTML>
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