bass strings

[James Grebe]

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> From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: bass strings
> Date: Wednesday, April 09, 1997 1:44 PM
>
> Copper varies more because of slight impurities and more because of
heating
> variations, i.e. tempering of the metal.
>
> Drawing, annealing and tempering are variations that have no electrical
> requirements but can have an effect on winding a string, not so much in
the
> quality of the string but how the winder is effected.

> Dear Newton,
Does this mean that the purer copper is harder to work with because of
itself or just different to work with than the normal copper?
James Grebe from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com

> Electrical wiring fabricators are the sources of copper for our strings.
We
> are such a miniscule consumer that WE have to bend to the available
materials.
>
>         Newton
>         nhunt@jagat.com
>