This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Clark Sprague=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: October 14, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Longitudinal mode info Del, Then, if the longitudinal mode frequency built in to a bass = string is hit or miss, how come the class I just went to in Milwaukee, = given by a bass string maker, said that he can design-in the = longitudinal mode, so that it is a more in-tune frequency than the "off = the rack" string makers? Smoke up our collective dresses? Or a real = advance in string making technology? I am hoping for an improvement, as = I just got finished tuning a S and S M that had a few that were (now = that I know what it was) really unpleasant, and impossible to tune or = voice out. Clark Sprague, RPT I assume you mean Arledge. We do use strings from him and we like them a = lot. They are nicely and precisely made, but he wraps to my core and = wrap specifications and I make no attempt to tune the longitudinals. = Perhaps I just have different priorities -- I want uniform and clean = power response for consistent and clear tone and easy voicing. I want = uniform inharmonicity for good tunability. And unless Arledge has come = up with some new techniques both of those are not available = simultaneously with tuned longitudinals. I also want tight and = consistent wraps that don't rattle and buzz. Frankly, I'm not all that = worried about those things real pianists rarely, if ever, complain = about. And, in my opinion at least, longitudinals are among those -- = they seem to bother piano tuners more than they bother pianists.=20 I have not seen any of the data Arledge uses to tune longitudinals, my = experience with this technology was gained at Baldwin. And even there I = probably never heard any strings that were properly done to Conklin's = designs. Compared to the SynchroTone strings we were getting from Mapes = the conventionally scaled bass sections sounded better.=20 I do know Arledge has studied Conklin's work on the subject and I assume = he has adopted at least part of Conklin's methodology but I'll be = sticking with more conventional bass scaling until somebody shows me how = to achieve uniform core and wrap progressions while also tuning the = longitudinals. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/56/97/24/08/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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