That is why I like to voice the piano after the pitch correction pass. At least rub the strings with a rag. Engaging the damper pedal and firmly playing the whole keyboard will loosen things too. Andrew Anderson At 05:03 PM 7/7/2006, you wrote: >>What do fellow listers experience as the average amount of time a >>piano needs to settle from a pitch raise before it is ready for a >>fine tuning from 20 cents? 50 cents? 100 cents? >>Alan Eder, RPT > >As Terry and Patrick said, instantly - with one small problem. If >the strings haven't adequately rendered through the bridges by the >time you've finished with the fine tuning, those that haven't will >to some degree in the next few days and weeks, and trash the tuning. >It probably won't go far off pitch, but the unisons get ragged >quickly. So any lingering instability from a pitch raise, or any >tuning for that matter, isn't a function of time, it's a function of >friction at bearing points as string segment tensions try to >equalize. If we had a way to detect segment tension differences >while we were tuning, we'd all leave much more solid tunings behind. > >Ron N
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