[pianotech] bass twisting direction

[David Love]

Sorry, no.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of John Dorr
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:40 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] bass twisting direction

John, others,

I'll repeat, it DOES make a difference which way you're looking at the
string.

Prove it to yourself by standing in front of somebody else and moving your 
finger in a clockwise direction.  Ask him what direction you're turning your

finger from HIS point of view.  Unless his watch turns backwards,
(Australian? 
 j/k)  he'll see it as counterclockwise - the opposite way that you see it.

Lacking another person, you could just point your own finger outward, trace
a 
clockwise circle and then, without changing your circular direction, turn
your 
hand around to point at yourself and your circle is now COUNTER- (or 
anti-)clockwise from your own point of view.

Then I'd still like an answer to my question below, please.

John Dorr




>At 10:22 -0600 24/4/09, John Dorr wrote:
>Re: John Delacour's explanation of string twisting direction:

>John, you showed windings like ///// or like \\\\\, and told which
direction >to turn from there. But which end, left or right, is the bottom
(loop) end? >And I assume that you're meaning to twist at the loop, rather
than the pin, >because it DOES make a difference which end you're looking
at.

>>John Delacour replied:
>>It makes no difference. If you twist the pin clockwise when standing in
>>front of the piano it is the same as twisting the eye clockwise when
you're >>standing at the toe of the piano.

>>JD