Fred Sturm makes some interesting observations. He is correct. These anomalies are not confined to bass strings, but the reasons are different. Most piano wire made during the past 60 years is sufficiently uniform so that the anomaly does not come from the wire itself, but from whatever it is attached to. Terminations are bound to affect it, and the shorter the string, the more effect the termination will have, especially in the duplex sections. Anomalies can also occur in the longer plain-wire strings when some resonance of the piano's bridge and soundboard reflect back into the string. Sincerely, Jim Ellis
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