Yikes! I've been arguing tuning with a piano tuner! It's nice to see you here, Lucius, welcome. I remain skeptical though. Whistlestop in his excellent posting also brings up coil memory. I don't understand how a Low E string tuned down to D, considering all the tension pulling it in the other direction, could make any movement back to E. It would be like a salmon swimming up stream while towing an oil tanker (or something like that). I'm not looking for an argument here so much as enlightment.

Dave