Hi Ric My comments below RIc wrote Hi Joe One should not write off peoples experiences anymore then anything else I harp on about. I suppose tho your re-looped strings were also new strings and not the old strings with their terminations changed yes ? Yes so true. To each his own. It is a fair minded attitude to possess. HI Joe Oh I love this, I think the opposite about single wrapped strings. They have no place on a short grand. JMO. They are not as flexible as a double wrapped string & the harmonics are whacked & the fundamental is weak. I have employed double wrapped all mono chords on pianos up to 7 ft with a dramatic increase in fundamental & tone color. See ,.......our ears see it differently. Just for the record Jim Arledge shares YOUR opinion. Merry Christmas Dale John, I've already done several "experiments", mostly on Chickering 1/4 Grands that have an ungodly short back-scale.The first one I did was originally strung with a standard English loop. The bottom 5 notes were like listening to a Spinet!! Redid with German loops and the low end became MUCH better! There IS a difference IMO. However, "experiment" all you want, I suspect you'll come to the same conclusion. On the topic of Double Wound vs Single Wound, I prefer the single wound sound, (there is a difference!<G>) Also, I've found that Double Wound Low Bass strings seem to get a bit thumpy in a short period of time as opposed to the Single Wraps. Just my experience. YMMV.<G> Regards, Joseph Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061223/bdce3155/attachment-0001.html
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