This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dave and List. I have been using Universal strings for when a string breaks, and I had = very good results with APSCO universal strings, they come on a hex core, = I would never use them to restring a piano, for obvious reasons. but I = can tell you for emergencies one of the best made are APSCO.=20 Elian ----- Original Message -----=20 From: dporritt=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 7:12 PM Subject: Hex wire Shaff advertises their universal strings with hex wire cores. They = even have a greatly enlarged picture of it in their new catalog. I have = never seen a universal string I could like. If you install them with a = round core string as the other string of a pair, the inharmonicity is = quite different and they can't be tuned. Some partials will have a loud = obnoxious beat. If you buy their sets of Universals, you'd have to buy = two sets to even come close to having a matching pair. I gave up on = them 20 years ago. The inharmonicity seems to be quite a bit higher = than round core wire. At least that's what I have found. =20 dave _______________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas dporritt@swbell.net _______________________________________________=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c4/29/d7/26/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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