tubby bass string replacement tip

[Clyde Hollinger]

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
Terry, just substitute "a high quality instrument" for "Steinway" and I
think you'll get what Tom meant.  He just mentioned Steinway because we
are more likely to run into them.  Picking that name to represent
quality instruments seems logical to me.  I think he was expecting to be
flamed because of the idea of maybe leaving in the piano a string of the
wrong size.

Tom, are you aware that there are universal strings available larger
than #1?  Schaff has sizes 01 through 06 with outside diameters going up
to .194, but they are all single-wound for obvious reasons.  I needed to
use one only once.  It's no fun trying to remove windings of that size
to make it fit, believe me.

Regards, Clyde

Farrell wrote:

> Tighten your flame suit collar. Would you do it to a Mason & Hamlin? A
> Bosendorfer? A Bechstein? A remanufactured Behr Bros? A remanufactured
> Wissner? A remanufactured Bush & Lane? A remanufactured Weber? Why
> would you single out a Steinway & SOns? Do you have a Pierce Atlas?
> Check it out, there are/were more high-quality manufacturers than just
> Steinway & SOns. Terry Farrell
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      I was called in to tune the piano at a restaurant, and
>      replace a bass string which had broken.  The piano was a
>      Story & Clark (Samick) and is full of false beats in the
>      treble and dead, tubby bass strings.  When I mic-ed the
>      broken string, I found that I did not have one that size.
>      It was larger than a #1 Schaff universal replacement.  My
>      original plan was to replace the string with a universal and
>      order a duplicate of the original to replace the universal.
>      But not having a universal the correct size, I thought I
>      would just leave it as is, and return ASAP with the dupe.
>
>      Expecting flames from this one, I'd never do it on a
>      Steinway, honest,
>
>      Tom Sivak
>

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ad/a0/fb/be/attachment.htm

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--