pounding in tuning

[Richard Moody]

> When the hammer strikes the string, it deflects it to start the
vibration.
> The vector force of this displacement increases the tension.

Does that mean the harder I strike the string the more the pitch goes up? 
Or is that law that states the proportion of pitch to tension wrong? 
Granted the amplitude is greater shortly after the moment of impact, (the
hammer rides with the wire for a short time to set it in motion), but then
it also decreases, (along with the vector forces) but shouldn't that also
decrease tension, and if tension decreases, so the shouldn't the pitch? 

A can of worms indeed.

Richard The wormey

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> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: pounding in tuning
> Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 1:23 PM
> 
> At 10:41 4/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Open can of worms time!
would make more sense.