<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> December 03, 2001 1:53 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Negative bearing (long)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <P>So... how is modal analysis then a valuable tool.... after the fact = as it were ? </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </P> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2>You take a piano, one with = strings attached and at least chipped to pitch, and run the test.</FONT></P> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Del</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>