Duplex

[Susan Kline]

At 01:26 AM 11/18/2001 +1100, you wrote:
>The idea of "massaging" the duplex scale.

A good string player can tell you this is a bad idea. It's a habit
with a lot of ignorant string players to press on a string in
the peg box if the note is SLIGHTLY flat, and to pull the
speaking length of the string sideways if it is sharp.

A cello, violin, etc., will go out of tune minutes after
this is done. It leads to furious retuning in between movements
of a piece. A good teacher will warn students against this
kind of string manipulation.

Since a piano has more friction, it might take hours or days
to go out of tune after "massaging" wire, or it might go out of
tune in minutes if heavy playing pulls wire into uniform tension
between segments.

Susan