---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =20 Hi Stephane.=20 Makes sense. I believe that piano wire, since it's development has=20 had differing amounts of carbon content which could effect tone & longevity= .=20 Also It's my contention that both plain wire & copper that was used as a wr= ap=20 combined with very skilled technicians made way better bass strings than mo= st=20 made today. Can't prove it but others have thought so as well. Just look/listen to/at some sets of early 1900 original sets of Stwy/othe= r=20 strings that still have 90% of the tonal integrity. Pretty amazing when I=20 consider how many string sets I replace in more modern pianos after only 30= to=20 40 years, especially bass strings. BTW, tension is tension the way understand it. Dale Don't know for Steinway, but heard that tests done on strings of a 1864 =20 Bechstein belonging once to Richard Wagner showed that the steel used for =20 strings had similar properties as modern R=F6slau wire. 1864 is a time aft= er=20 the industrialization of the process of making steel, and piano makers were= =20 very quick to adopt the new material. St=E9phane Collin =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d9/c5/34/7d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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