Hi John: I definitely think you are hoping for too much. I'd be happy if I could get some of the bass string suppliers to properly read and reproduce measurements that are correct. Recently I ordered 6 replacement bass strings for 3 different pianos, and provided accurate measurements for each. When I got the strings, all 6 of them had windings that were 4 to 6 inches too long and were unusable. My measurements were accurate, the strings weren't. This is a continuing problem with suppliers. I don't know what the answer is, other than to send them the strings to reproduce. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Ross Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:34 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: [pianotech] Stringmaking Question Should a good string maker be able to determine if a wrong measurement is supposedly given for a custom string set? The set had all the windings uniform at the tuning pin end. However one pair had the windings half way across the bridge. There were two other pairs that had one of the pair with a winding 1 mm from the bridge. When a computer is designing the set, wouldn't these errors have been noticed? I contend that this should have been noticed by eyeballing the set, and querying the measurements. Just wondering what other peoples take on this is. Unfortunately, I did not keep a copy of the submitted measurements. John M.Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081123/dc86d051/attachment.html>
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