[CAUT] Wire Stretch

[Ron Nossaman]

> What do you mean you disagree!  If the tension in the back-length is low 
> and seating the strings evens out the tension, then the tension and 
> pitch of the speaking length will fall.  This is your experience and 
> mine and anybody else's.

I disagree that back scale tensions are always, or even 
typically lower than speaking length tensions, much less that 
  they continue to get lower over time compared to speaking 
lengths. I also disagree that the pitch lowering we hear when 
seating strings is necessarily coming from the back scale.


>> Pretty much every living soul out there has access to an ETD capable 
>> of measuring pitch levels quite accurately, and calculating tension 
>> levels and changes in speaking length and back scale before and after 
>> seating strings and noting a pitch drop in the speaking length.
> 
> Quite so.  What one earth makes you think I am contradicting that. What 
> I took issue with is your previous remark that:

Instead of arguing something I didn't say, I thought some 
actual data accumulated by as many interested individuals as 
are willing and with no argument to support, would easily 
answer a few questions that endless discussion obviously 
won't. Let's find out, for a change.


  > This seems to contradict everything else that you are saying.

Not if you had read and understood what I've been saying.
Ron N