Bose Imperial Bass Strings

[Farrell]

Farrell wrote:

> He purposely tries to make the
> wrapped length as long as he possibly can with the winding touching the
> bridge pins or agraffes. 

Oops! I meant "without" the winding touching......

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: Bose Imperial Bass Strings


> My understanding is that unwrapped portions contribute to inharmonicity,
> more unwrapped, more inharmonicity.  Ideally, you want the wrapped portion
> as long as possible without it touching the agraffe (or bridge).  
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> > To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: 6/7/2003 10:07:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: Bose Imperial Bass Strings
> >
> > I've had David Sanderson make me a couple sets of bass strings. The
> strings were made from my measurements. He purposely tries to make the
> wrapped length as long as he possibly can with the winding touching the
> bridge pins or agraffes. I forget all his rationale, but I think the
> advantage is to simply fully take advantage of all the length available to
> make the string. As I recall, the winding came within about 1/8-inch of the
> pins and agraffes (maybe it was further, but I do remember it being
> amazingly close). Seem to me to make sense to get them as long as is
> possible - but not risk touching. How much will a string stretch over the
> years? I don't really know.
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> > BTW, the Sanderson strings sounded fabulous.
> >   
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Paul McCloud" <pmc303@ricochet.com>
> > To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 11:52 AM
> > Subject: Bose Imperial Bass Strings
> >
> >
> > Friends:
> >
> >             I have a Bosendorfer Imperial 9' grand that has been
> > restrung.  The bass string replacement sets I've gotten from the string
> > company haven't been satisfactory, and I'm wondering what to do about
> > it.  Here's the history.
> >
> >             The first set was made by a company in Canada (won't name)
> > who was recommended by our associate store's technician.  (The piano is
> > for sale at the store where I work).  I sent the original strings for
> > them to duplicate.  They were very conscientious about making them
> > exactly the same as the old ones.  It seems that the old strings had
> > windings VERY close to the bridge pins.  Since we (at the store) were
> > concerned about some local tech finding this and badmouthing the piano
> > (and possibility of buzzing on the bridge pins) we decided to reorder
> > the strings and make the windings end farther from the bridge.  I spoke
> > to the winder, and he suggested sending a pattern, which I did.  Now,
> > they had the old strings and the pattern to work with.  The new strings
> > arrived, and were installed.  Several of the strings had windings that
> > came extremely close to the agraffes, many less than ¼".  Some were
> > almost touching.  When I called to complain, they said I had made the
> > pattern wrong.  Ok, maybe so.  But, thankfully, he was willing to remake
> > about half a dozen of the closest ones, at no charge.  They were
> > satisfactory, but after installing a couple, I realized that the rest of
> > the strings were stretching (it took a few months before I installed the
> > new replacements).  The other strings had stretched so much, the
> > windings on them also came very close to the agraffes.  At this point, I
> > decided to go to another string company (U.S. maker) who said he had the
> > string scale already (36 string bass scale).  I ordered the full set,
> > and they arrived a few days ago.  I found that this set was exactly like
> > the original set the Canadian company had made, with the windings so
> > close to the bridge pins, and the windings near the agraffes.  I didn't
> > install the strings, actually, but I could see that they were too long,
> > and would have come too close to the agraffes when pulled to pitch.
> >
> >             At this point, I don't know if I should expect the American
> > string company to take back the strings.  It's not their fault,
> > necessarily, nor is it mine, since they assured me that they had made
> > lots of these and had no complaints. 
> >
> > I'm inclined to use a tape to measure the distances from hitch pin (I
> > got one of those special tape measures at a convention), and have custom
> > strings made from the actual numbers.  But, I'm not a rebuilder, nor do
> > I have much experience with these Bosies, so any suggestions y'all might
> > have would be gratefully appreciated.  
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >             Paul McCloud
> >
> >             San Diego
> >
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