[CAUT] Dead (New) bass strings

[Jim Busby]

Hi Wim,

 

The straight set wasn't wrapped and the color was a bit darker than the older wrapped set. Both fairly dead.  

 

Regards,

Jim

 

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:25 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Dead (New) bass strings

 

In a message dated 8/16/07 9:23:46 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time, jim_busby at byu.edu writes:

	List,

	 

	While trying to save some bucks I used an old (10 years?) set of bass strings for a D. They were still coiled and wrapped in plastic. About ½ of them were dead! Sooo... I have another spare set (About 4 years old) hanging straight on some hooks for emergency repairs. The trichords were also dead, for the most part. Rolled or straight, wrapped or in open air, it doesn't seem to matter.

	 

	I don't get it. How can bass strings go dead in storage? And, why? There was a thread on this months ago, but it seems totally bizarre to me that this could happen. I've been told to ALWAYS order a fresh set.

	 

	 I guess a penny saved is a penny wasted.

	 

	Jim Busby BYU

Jim

 

Although you are in a relatively dry climate, I wonder if having the strings wrapped in plastic could have actually cause them to become dead, because the plastic would prevent any moisture that was in the package, which came from Mapes in Tennessee, (lots of humidity), to escape.  Were the ones you had hanging out of the plastic, or bare? If they were bare, i don't know why they would be dead.

 

Back in St. Louis I would carry several sets of universals in my car. Some of them would be in there for 3 or 4 years before I would have a chance to use them, and they would be dead. I could see the tarnish in the copper. I suspect that with the high humidity they would get a little moist, even though they were packed in a box and wrapped in paper. 

 

Just my take on the subject.

 

Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, Hawaii





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