I agree with Bob on this one. Half the battle is the bass string maker simply doing good, careful work - whether this is done by well adjusted and maintained CNC winding machinery or by hand. I've heard bad strings wound by machine, and bad by hand. And great strings wound both ways. Strings that sound very clean without junky overtones and that tune unisons that don't have overtones hammering on them. That being said, good rescaling as has been discussed in this thread simply makes all this even better, adding more fundamental and blending the breaks and steps. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of BobDavis88 at aol.com Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 11:21 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway A Bass String Rescaling In a message dated 5/22/2009 8:49:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: [SNIP]...The rave reviews you hear about the magic of string winding from GC or anybody else and how great their strings sound has everything to do with scaling choices they make and not the mythical string winder they have hiding in the back room. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com We've been using GC for quite a while, and my sense is that the pairs are more equally wound than strings from the big houses; therefore pairs match each other better up the partial ladder. Apart from the scaling, I do hear cleaner unisons. Bob D _____ A strong credit score is 700 or above. See <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222585033x1201462753/aol?redir=htt p://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=115%26bcd=Ma ystrongfooter52309NO115> Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090523/3609d0c4/attachment.htm>
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