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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Ron Overs =
wrote;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> "<FONT face="Times =
New Roman"
size=3>While the pull on one unison will indeed affect the <BR>rear =
duplex
length of the same unison, the effect will not continue <BR>around the =
hitch
pitch to the adjacent unison which is sharing the <BR>same hitch pin. =
Yes I
know, I've heard many who dispute this also, <BR>but they are wrong =
provided
that the string tension is not too <BR>different for the two unison =
strings
concerned. Sure, if there's a <BR>huge tension difference there will be =
a
tendency for the unison to <BR>pull around the hitch. But under normal =
scaling
tension deviations, <BR>this is not an issue.<FONT face=Arial
size=2>"</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> This may be a little =
off the
fine nuances spoken about here, but it's a funny story anyway. =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> This week, I had a =
lady call me
to do an appraisal on, and tune her piano. It was an old Estey baby =
grand. On
the phone she said that one of the strings had broken when she was =
attempting to
tune it. And, oh yes, it had a broken middle pedal that got that way =
when her
Brother-in-law moved it for her. You get the picture. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Anyway, I get there, =
and
naturally, it's a wound string which she had told me was plain wire =
(What's the
difference anyway?) Hadn't been tuned since she tried to tune it =
TEN YEARS
AGO! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What ties this in to =
Ron's
statement is this; When I gave the piano a cursory once through at =
pitch, just
so she could play it before she buys a new piano, ( "I'm going down =
tomorrow,
it's time to get back into my music.") I found that some of the unisons =
on the
right were tuned a pure fifth sharp! I didn't think that the wire could =
go that
high without breaking. Man, you should have heard what it sounded like =
when I
brought them down, it was a long long way. But that tension hadn't =
creeped
around those hitch pins, even with that big a change in tension, even =
after ten
years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Funny thing too, =
when I lowered
the pitch on those notes in the center section, which was in the =
temperament
area, the only area that she was tuning in, it raised the pitch from =
being 20
cents flat to 15 cents, so I had to start all over.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The fact that the =
soundboard was
separating from the rim didn't help things, I guess. When you hit a hard =
tuning
blow, and held it, there was kind of a groan to it. Tuning pins barely
holding,bass bridges broken at every string, that's why she's =
getting a
new one. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We'll give her $500 for it, and send it =
down to
SAMA. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin Ramsey<BR><A
href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></FONT><=
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