>One point I want to make. > >My introduction of the term 'natural curve' came in response to the question >about tuning stability on a new piano. > >My inference to 'attending to this curve' would make the tuning more stable, >sooner. * I agree, and do the same sort of attending when I string one. >Disclaimer: >Any conclusion of string clarity must be assumed by the reader as I made no >reference to this. > >The recent flood of posts perhaps led to this misunderstanding as a result of >speed-reading. I know I have been glazing thru many posts. * I will repeat. My comments weren't directly in response to your post. I borrowed your "naural curve" line because this is the way I've heard it said these many years. I was speaking strictly to the (I think, mistaken) belief that the orientation of this curve, or an introduction of a twist, in the speaking length affects the clarity of the tone. Ihis wasn't any conclusion on my part based on your post, but rather something I have heard from a lot of "authoritative" sources through the years, including instructors in seminar and institute classes. I thought I had explained all that up front. Perhaps not. Incidentally, you didn't explain what you were talking about by "attending to the natural curve" in your original post either. >I will say this though, by sharpening the bend at the capo by lifting the wire >on either side >has improved the tone. I have a spinet caster mounted securely onto a narrow >scrap of >pin block material. With a fulcrum placed on the keybed, this lever lifts the >strings and >between the circumference of the wheel and the rolling action; I do not 'dent' >the wire; >whether or not a kink affects the tone, I'm not taking any chances. >Besides it >looks better >without an angle in the string length. * It certainly does. > >No flies on me, > >Jon Page >Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron
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