<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Rob. I thanks your muito bom! Please = confirm the home page address of the forum because I tried and I received a Proxy = error. If you want, we may change experiences in Portuguese and in English.  = Rogerio Cunha</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: = 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Mensagem = original-----</B><BR><B>De: </B>Rob Stuart-Vail <<A = href="mailto:rob_sv@email.msn.com">rob_sv@email.msn.com</A>><BR><B>P= ara: </B><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> = <<A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Data: </B>Sábado, 6 de Dezembro de 1997 23:03<BR><B>Assunto: = </B>Re: Middle String<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hola Rogerio,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>¡ Muito bom !</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Thanks for = your input on which unison string is best to tune first.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>No problem understanding your English.  = However, if you want to work on it, there's a great forum called Tandem [<A = href="mailto:tandem@slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de">tandem@slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.= de</A>] where you can be assigned an English-speaking pen pal who is = learning Portugese.  He'll correct your English, and you help him with = his Portugese. (I'm currently doing this with people in Spain and Latin = America - a great way to learn).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial = size=2><B></B></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Rob Stuart-Vail</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B></B></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B></B></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>----Original = Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>ROGERIO OLIVEIRA DA CUNHA <<A = href="mailto:rogeriocunha@openlink.com.br">rogeriocunha@openlink.com.br= </A>><BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> = <<A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Saturday, December 06, 1997 4:23 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Middle String<BR><BR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>To the list.<BR>My English = may be poor in order to explain why I think that the middle strings are the <BR>better in order to you do a temperament.<BR>When you use a = rubber to mute the right side string, you may use this mute rubber in two <BR>directions:<BR>1 – Put the rubber from right to left = and the rubber will be behind the right side string or<BR>2 – put = the rubber from left to right and the rubber will be over the right = side string.<BR>      (to the left side = string, change the directions)<BR>On the two cases the rubber forces the = side string from or to the plate and the string will be <BR>in a = different plane from the middle string. YOU NEVER FORCE THE MIDDLE <BR>STRING.<BR>So the middle string will be always in the same = plane and this is a very good condition!<BR>My old German teacher said: = always forces the side strings to the plate in order to maintain = <BR>the plane of the middle string  free from the plane of the side = strings. ( In some cases, if you <BR>forces the side string from the plate, = the plane of this string is in front of the plane of the <BR>middle string = and the hammer can’t  to strike the string well!).<BR>In all = cases when you pull the mute rubber from the place where it was muting = the string, <BR>the string come to this original plane and....... = MAY BE OUT OF TUNNING. <BR>Because of this, in some pianos the PAP’S = mute is very useful because it don/t forces the <BR>side string to or = from the plate. This is all.<BR>I would like to read this in a very good English!</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><BR><FONT = color=#000000>ROGERIO CUNHA - Rio de Janeiro</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT = color=#000000></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2>IC MEMBER OF THE PTG</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT = color=#000000></FONT></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BOD= Y></HTML>