[CAUT] Adams 1/4 tone sharp piano

[Jeff Tanner]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

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>> Anybody calculated what the new tension would be on that piano?
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> Somewhere around 2200 lbs higher than original.
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Interesting.  I would have thought much higher.  Would certainly  
think that pushing the elasticity of the wire to that extent, if it  
survives, would do permanent damage to tone/sustain, and completely  
ruin a set of bass strings.  But, alas, I'm a piano tech, not a  
physicist (or a composer).



Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina