termination and inharmonicity ?

[Ron Nossaman]

>Hi Ron,
>The question that Newton was responding to was mine.
>Perhaps it was not well stated.
>If one has a unison of two wound strings that have different harmonic
>structure can one remove winding from one to match the other?
>If so, which one would be striped of winding?
>My guess would be the one with the lowest inharmonic readings, but I have
>never had a piano that was not a clients to attempt this test.
>Joe Goss

Hi Joe,
I really don't have a clue. I've never tried it. Logically, there would
have to be a qualifying condition or two. If one string had an
inharmonicity level that was adequate, and the other was too low, removing
wrap on the low one could bring it up to meet the adequate one. If both
were too high in inharmonicity, there wouldn't be anything you could do to
bring either one of them down to match each other, and the rest of the
piano, without adding wrap. That strikes me as an unlikely possibility.
Maybe CA?  8^)

All in all, I'd tend to leave it broke unless I could fix it proper. I
leave a WHOLE LOT of 'em broke! Those that I get the chance to fix, I fix
them as well as I know how.


Ron N