string breakage

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:25:48 -0500


>..meanwhile, this guy is trying to put strings on an _autoharp_.
>Not, I suspect, a very high tension scale.  But he's winding his own
>strings, not using store bought autoharp strings.
>So I'm gonna guess he's using harpsichord wire.....Wim?
>
>Ed S.

Looping, yes. Winding, doubtful. And as for using a low tensile strength 
wire to replace a high tensile strength and wondering why it's breaking... 
surely not. Aren't autoharps strung with piano wire?

Ron N


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