Twisting bass strings (physics)

[Clyde Hollinger]

Now that sounds genuinely bizarre!  Both directions in the same piano?!
Does anyone know if there was a purpose for this, or was it a manufacturing
error?

Regards,
Clyde

William J Schlipf wrote:

> Clyde,  I've never done them all the wrong way.  Did have an older
> Kimball console, SN 421018, that had every other string twisting the
> opposite direction in the double unisons.  Got half twisted the wrong
> way.  Boy did it sound awful!!  It pays to check EACH AND EVERY
> STRING!!!!!  It was fine when I got them twisted the proper direction.
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:45:26 -0500 Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
> writes:
> > I hope I'm not the only one who twisted all the strings the wrong way
> > after
> > doing a bridge repair.  It really gave me a sickening feeling to
> > hear all those
> > "dead" bass strings until I realized what was wrong and corrected
> > them all.
> > Then they were okay.  Whew!
> >
> > Clyde