<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: New topic: Lifting the Strings</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> on 4/18/04 10:18 PM, Isaac OLEG at oleg-i@noos.fr wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>David , do you massage the back scale on a regular basis ? Yes. Pretty much every piano I come to.  Do you mean more than once? O= nly if I'm doing the entire string seating protocol again. I see a potential danger for the bridge top there, and bridge roll also(be= cause of the lower tension in the back scale after that. I don't think I'm pushing hard enough for that to happen. </BLOCKQUOTE> I've been doing that for some time , but did not notice a suc= h interesting improvement for that part of the process. It is very useful to= low the pitch, for sure, but how hard do you press the back scale, ? I can't press all that hard because I have Rheumatoid arthritis, and have p= retty depleted grip and push strength right now. Enough to make a difference= in pitch, and stretch the wire a little. how high get the tension there ? Don't know. what happens to the string ?. It stretches, apparently, and goes down in pitch. I start from the back because my engineer partner tells me the string is mo= ving forward, and this is the most stable method to achieve what I want to..= ... Hope this helps.....David A. </BODY> </HTML>