Ted, Stephen, and list: I've used this wire on an 1830-something Chickering, and it worked beautifully. It does have a lower tensile strength than modern wire, but so did the original wire on these old 19th-cent. instruments. I ran short and had to string one note with modern wire, and the tone just stuck out like a sore thumb on that note. The "Pure Sound" wire has a sweet, gorgeous tonal character, while the note strung in modern wire sounded hard and clangy. Of course, I immediately ordered more wire to replace the modern wire. I believe one of the reasons the modern wire sounded so bad is that it was too far below its breaking point; in other words, it was too strong for the application. Steve On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Stephen Birkett wrote: > Ted wrote: > > I am curious about the stainless steel wire advertized in the Journal. = > > Has anyone used it? Or intending to? I was taught that the main = > > objection to it was that its breaking strain was not high enough, but = > > wonder if the metallergy has improved for this particular make of wire. = > > If so it would be a true breakthrough. > > Haven't tried it, but tensile stength is less than modern steel piano > wire. It is an alloy comp. chosen to match, with an existing modern > alloy, reasonably closely the properties of earlier steel wire. > > _________________________________________________ Steve Brady, RPT Head Piano Technician, University of Washington Editor Emeritus, Piano Technicians Journal
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