<!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 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3>On a piano with a well-designed string scale, yes. = But on many pianos the tension seems to wander wildly between adjacent notes = (shouldn't be, but it is). Kinda make you wonder why a designer would resort of = tying off each string.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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=BobDavis88@aol.com href="mailto:BobDavis88@aol.com">BobDavis88@aol.com</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> Monday, March 22, 2004 = 8:05 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: There's always a = hitch</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px = solid"><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is amazing that a 180 around a hitch pin is = sufficient to separate two different tensions.  </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>There IS almost no difference in tension, even on a string = shared by two notes. The difference in pitch between the two notes comes not = from a difference in tension, but by a difference in speaking length.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob Davis</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>