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Certainly I hope that this is "tongue in cheek". I would abandon the trade/art/craft of pianos if I believed that we didn't need to know the answers to such questions, and by "needing" to know I mean needing in myself to <u>know</u> as well as I can know such things. It would be a pretty dull endeavor otherwise. Ja, just go collect the bucks and leave. Ho-hum. It is only the need to know and understand that drives toward better pianos, better design, and certainly, better capability to service the pianos we work on. The growth in piano technological knowledge is much like watching laws being made--not pretty, and seriously time-consuming. Not in my lifetime, probably, and not in yours, but incremental over generations. <br>
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And cheers to you, too! :-)<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 3px;">cause in the end we dont really need to know the
answer to such questions</blockquote>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Richard Brekne <ricb@pianostemmer.no><br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 4:09 am<br>
Subject: stretching wire -- an anecdotal analysis<br>
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Well... er.. ja.. its comming from somewhere. That said why is it on
old pianos... say 60-70 years old... one finds often enough them holding
pitch over several years far better then newer so called settled in
instruments ? <br>
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Clearly there is much that is not understood... and it doesnt really
seem like anyone is going to be able to find enough time and resources
to figure it out... cause in the end we dont really need to know the
answer to such questions. We need only go and retune instruments and
stuff the customers money in our pockets for a job well done :) <br>
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Cheers <br>
RicB <br>
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Even so, that pitch drop has to come from SOMEWHERE. I have heard <br>
the same statement that wire "creeping" stretch is physically <br>
impossible, and it seems unlikely that the physicists are massive <br>
wrong on this.. <br>
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Kurt Baxter <br>
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