---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Paul my experiece with this much twisting always ends up in false beats. I only do this when I have a particularly dead string the won't sing at 1 or 2 twist & stretched for a week or two. Then in desperation & nother twist or so. If it comes up great but later I find them false. Another head scratcher. Dale Del: I've talked with only one older factory stringer (he's unfortunately dead now so confirmation isn't possible) who claimed that he put 3-4 twists in bass strings only to tighten the coils on the wire to avoid buzzing as the core stretched. Of course the tension on the coils will release slightly as well, but I can't figure how tensile strength (either overall or in the components --copper or steel) would be increased by twisting which shortens the wire and would cause the need for slightly lower tensions to account for the difference for pitch. Or do I have that backwards? The ductility of copper doesn't argue logically for higher tensile strength except for the stiffening that results from stretching a wire as in lead in stained glass windows which visibly stiffens when stretched; but that is not for tensile strength, more for shearing strength. The same observation would hold for steel as well? Paul R-J ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/92/64/99/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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