Stainless Steel Wire

Annelies Boddin annelies.boddin@pandora.be
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:48:22 +0200


We did some pianos, best result was on a °1950 very small Petrofgrand: nice
singing sound, this strings have indeed a better inharmonicity.
On a °1920 Pleyel 220cm we had the same nice singing sound but less volume.
A °1920 big upright ' A Grand Berlin' was also very singing with pure sound.
Just finished a °1902 Steinweg Nachfolger  mod.A size : satisfied with the
sound but again like the Pleyel not enough volume to my taste. I think in
the future I only will use puresound for small grands.

The main problem is that this string is more fragile than Röslau, breaks
easely when you raise  on pitch , specially on the loops, be aware when you
calculate a scale to take certainly a 40% margin to yieldpoint. There is for
the upper numbers a 'strong' version available.I  usually order at
Hellerbass Germany puresoundbasstrings,with the Steinweg some broke, could
be possible they turn to fast when making the loop, they dont know exactly
what is the problem.
We made the broken ones on our own  machine and yet no problem. I think
thats all folks. Friendly greetings from
Danny Boddin , Ternat Belgium.



 Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:44 PM
Subject: Stainless Steel Wire


> Has anyone on the list strung a piano with the Stainless Steel wire, known
> as "Pure Sound"???? Would like to know. And, of course, any details.
> Best Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
>
> Squares Need Love Too!<G>
>
>
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