[CAUT] String Coupling / SB and Bridge stiffness

Richard Brekne ricb at pianostemmer.no
Sat Jun 6 09:45:37 MDT 2009


Hi.... was tuning a rather old D today... serial 318xxx which has a very 
deadish sounding area in the middle of the piano... F4-F5 ish.  Noticed 
on a couple notes there was a very large, quite a bit more then usual 
dip in pitch when all three strings for unisons were coupled in... smack 
in the middle of this area.

Got to thinking abit about string coupling and the mechanisms that are 
at work that account for the pitch drop and got to wondering if it is 
viable to think of the degree of pitch drop when 2 and 3 strings are 
coupled in on a unison as an indicator of  SB/bridge stiffness at any 
given note.

Or... is this another one of my rabbit holes ?

Cheers
RicB


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