---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Friends, I have also noticed the deadness Terry refers to. I assumed it was a flaw in the replacement string, but now I hear several people say it's because the string may be more than eight months without tension. Since it's hard to do any bona fide research on such a question, here's another angle to consider. Suppose a bass string tears and lies in the bottom of the piano for two years. Finally a piano technician is called to tune the piano. He splices the string and reinstalls it. Can anyone relate to such a scenario? And if so, did you ever notice deadness in *that* string, which would also have been without tension for some time and is decades old? Is it a factor that the hex core goes across the upper (in a vertical) termination point, whereas in a custom-made string the core is round? But the deadness is a problem only *some* of the time. I try to keep a complete set of universal replacement strings on hand. I certainly am not going to discard them all after 6-8 months and get new ones. Should one use them only in an emergency with the full intent of replacing it with a custom string ASAP? As Terry said, the situations where I use these strings are nearly always on pianos that are so worn-out or low quality that I have a problem justifying the cost of a custom replacement. And yes, I am splicing more strings than I did in the past, although I still dislike the looks of it, and occasionally a splice won't hold. Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT Lititz, PA, USA Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote: > In a message dated 12/23/01 2:56:27 PM !!!First Boot!!!, > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: > > > >> Now why in the world would a 6 - 8 month-old bass string in a box be >> useless, and a 20 year old bass string on a piano be expected to >> sound reasonably good? >> >> Terry Farrell >> > > I think it is the lack of tension on the string. Perhaps more moisture > and dirt gets in them sitting in the back of my van. I don't know all > the answers. All I know is that universals more than 8 months old are > usually dead, or at least not as good as a newer one. > > Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/16/60/7d/2e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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