[CAUT] Water Damage to Practice Room U1s

[reggaepass at aol.com]

My experience with Japanese pianos has been that you can get bass 
strings that sound at least as good (if not considerably better) for 
less money, and made right here in the US of A. Has anybody else out 
there tried non-Bosendorfer bass strings on one of their pianos? I did 
once (quite some time ago) and was woefully disappointed. They do make 
mighty fine strings. Just wondering if the sound is unique to them, if 
it is closely approximated by someone else, or if anyone's after-market 
strings produce a different but "also wonderful" sound on Bosies.

 Alan Eder, RPT

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Solliday <solliday at ptd.net>
 To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
 Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:27:52 -0500
 Subject: Re: [CAUT] Water Damage to Practice Room U1s

 Bill ol' buddy,
  same thing you get when you spend over $1,000. for authentic 
Bosendorfer
  strings and wait 6 months to get them from Austria. Original marketing 
as
  Don has noted. Personally I prefer GC or Arledge depending on how much 
bite
 you're lookin for. I like GC for Yamaha.
 Chris Solliday
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "william ballard" <wbps at vermontel.net>
 To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
 Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:55 AM
 Subject: Re: [CAUT] Water Damage to Practice Room U1s


 > One curious detail came up during the estimating of repairs on these
 > two sprinkled-on U1s. I was quoted by Yamaha $511 per set of
 > replacement bass strings. (I made a quick call to the local Yamaha
 > dealer who said that sounded right.)
 >
 > This 52-string set duplicated by Mapes would be $223. Steinway's
 > replacement set for either 1098 or K52 is $167. I know that with
 > Yahama strings the lengths are so well-calculated that they can go
 > right on the tuning pin with no trimming to length, and presumably
 > their accuracy for a scale of their own should be far above anyone
 > else's copy of this set. BUT....what else am I getting for the extra
 > $300-350?
 >
 > Bill Ballard RPT
 > NH Chapter, P.T.G.
 >
 > wbps at vermontel.net
 > 098783 EA Hamburg Tuning Pins 4/0 2-1/2.......$72.00
 > T5591600 1PC Key Flame Guide
 > ...........My two favorite catalog items (Steinway 4/96, and Yamaha
 > respectively)
 > +++++++++++++++++++++
 >
 >
 >
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