Putting bass strings back on

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Steve,
                 The best made strings only need 1 turn at most.  If 
strings sounded OK before you started, then half turn is all that is 
usually needed.
Regards Roger

At 08:39 PM 3/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Steve:
>
>Is there a possibility that you twisted them the wrong way?
>
>dave
>
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>On 3/7/2003 at 8:18 PM Steve Borgstrom wrote:
>
> >I repaired a crack in the bass bridge apron on the piano shaped
>object
> >I currently own. 1st one ever for me, went ok with a little help
>from
> >an RPT friend (my teacher). Was able to do it only removing 8
>strings,
> >whooo hooo!
> >
> >My buddy left, I left the piano on the tilter overnight to dry. Put
>the
> >strings back on and remembered seeing somewhere that you are
>supposed
> >to twist the bass strings to keep the copper from rattling. I went 1
>&
> >1/2 twists on each string and got it back together, put the action
>back
> >in and started in tuning.
> >
> >Got to the three lowest strings I had removed, F#1, G1 and Ab1.
>Tried
> >to bring them up to pitch and they sounded awful, muffled, just what
>I
> >thought the twisting was supposed to eliminate. Well, I loosened
>them,
> >took them off, let them go where they wanted to, metal memory
>speaking,
> >and reattached them. Tuned them up and they sounded just like the
>other
> >strings around them.
> >
> >My question is, what is this phenomenon? What causes it and how does
>
> >one know how much if any twist to put in when putting them on the
>hitch
> >pins?
> >
> >Thanks all!
> >
> >
> >Steve Borgstrom
> >Brooklyn Park, MN
> >
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>David M. Porritt
>dporritt@mail.smu.edu
>Meadows School of the Arts
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75275
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