down to the wire

[Gevaert Pierre]

I restrung several grands (end 19th Century) with Puresound and I was happy
with the sound. 

On a few I had string breakage problems and I’ve heared from a good bass
string maker that the quality was not always consistent and that he often
had to remake broken strings for his clients. (also afther rescaling jobs)

 

I’d like to try the Paulello wire wich I heared is also good. Here is the
site : http://www.stephenpaulello.com/pdf/Paulello%20piano%20wire.pdf

 

I used his strings but for antique pianos 1830 – 1840 and realy like the
results.

 

Pierre

 

 

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De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part
de John Delacour
Envoyé : mercredi 24 octobre 2007 1:07
À : Pianotech List
Objet : RE: down to the wire

 

At 11:59 -0500 23/10/07, Porritt, David wrote:

 

>JD:

> 

>Do you have any experience with Pure Sound wire?  Comments?

 

I have no direct experience of it but am interested in others' 

experience of it, which I pick up from various quarters, including on 

this list, and I have so far had no reason on that basis to be 

convinced of its qualities, which are very vaguely advertised.  I 

keep an open mind on it, but am more interested in cast steel wire of 

various tensile strengths from other sources.  For strings in the low 

bass of short pianos, where the tension is normally a low percentage 

of the yield point, I think almost certainly a core wire of wire with 

lower tensile strength can give improved tone and I am about to take 

my experiments a little further, since the little work I have done so 

far is quite promising.

 

For much of my work, however, at least as regards bass string making, 

I need wire that has a _higher_ tensile strength, such as the old 

Poehlmann wire, since many old scales from good makers such as 

Schiedmayer,Blüthner, Rittmüller etc. were designed for higher 

tensions than the R wire will withstand.

 

I have a suspicion that what is lacking in modern wires is 

(certainly) not chromium but more likely nickel.  We shall see.

 

JD

 

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