Kurt asks: << Granted, this sounds reasonable, but why should such tightening of the slack in the coil happen slowly? What is the physical mechanism that causes this type of pitch drop to be time release? >> I assume it is the friction around the tuning pin which is slowly allowing the stress in the wire to overcome it. Anybody got any other ideas? 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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