User talk:Mireut

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Would you be interested in joining my proposed WikiProject, WikiProject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales? With one more member I think we could become a real WikiProject. —Keenan Pepper 21:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Piano wire/music wire

Since you removed something from this article pertaining to hardening, let me ask you: do you know for sure that heat treatment is not used in the making of music wire? If not, what process is used instead? It has always been my understanding that the hardening of steel is always done by heating and quenching. (Other materials can be hardened by other methods, but not steel.) --ILike2BeAnonymous 19:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

The drawing process is what makes the wire strong, called cold work or strain hardening, which is different from the carbide phase hardening processes. The wire _is_ heat treated because it's annealed so that it will be ductile enough to draw again, or so that coils, loops, and bends, cold work in their own right, can be formed without making the wire too brittle at these active points Check out the acticles on carbon steel, cold work, wire, forging for more info.--Mireut

ps. In the first chart here you can see how wire can gain strength as it is drawn smaller, and some effects from drawing or annealing different materials differently.

[edit] JI/ horn deletion

I've moved this over to Talk:Just intonation because more people may want to discuss this there. (Sorry Makemi, you edited at the same time as me.) Rainwarrior 00:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Piano acoustics

There have been some changes to Piano acoustics recently (Railsback curve was merged in, and I did a little bit of rewriting); I know you have knowledge relating to piano wire issues, would you consider giving it a look over? - Rainwarrior 05:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)