purple strings

Warren Fisher fish@COMMUNIQUE.NET
Thu, 03 Apr 1997 06:14:59 -0800


A440A@aol.com wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
>       Does anybody have an idea as to what would make a complete set of bass
> strings turn the most beautiful, dark purple?  The set is only two or three
> years old.
>      The color is so even, I must assume it was in the air, as there are no
> splash marks etc.  the piano is in a college dorm, though it is not,
> (surprisingly!) trashed.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Foote

Ed, ask the school if the dorm was bagged for termite fumigation.  Also
ask a chemist what would turn copper purple.

Just guessing!

Warren
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