---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment My rule of thumb on braid is that if I pluck the tail and it goes "tnk" I don't braid, and if it goes "tnnngk" I do. Tails can act like short, inharmonic rods, particularly in the tenor and bass; and if they get excited by a note or even a particular combination of notes, they can add an unpleasant, hard to find resonance. I service a D in a dead hall. This particular one had braid unusually far up the scale, from the factory. I undid the braid down to the bass-tenor strut and the tone livened up and relaxed noticeably. I went one note too far, though, as there is a jump in the tail length where they go on the other side of the strut, and the howl was audible. I rebraided that one note and it is satisfactory. Bob D ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d8/e0/97/f1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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