At 08:32 -0500 07/01/2011, Terry Farrell wrote: >On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:51 AM, John Delacour wrote: > >>At 06:49 -0500 07/01/2011, Terry Farrell wrote: >> >>>...whether lengths of a couple millimeters difference in the >>>wrapped speaking length in a pair of unisons would commonly >>>present tuning problems? >> >>If it did then most Steinway grands would do so. > >Would do what - have beating bass strings? Yes. >If it's not carelessness, then it is by design? To what end? Whoever ordered the strings sent wrong measurements by the look of it. The stringmaker has his lengths to within a millimetre, and you can hardly get closer than that, and the irregularity at the front end is consistent, and no stringmaker would deliberately do all the strings so exactly wrong. >>...the copper line is parallel both to the stud and the line of the >>bridge pins, > >As is this piano. (I presume a "stud" is an agraffe?) We learn your language, you can learn ours. JD
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