Greetings to the List, I have been wondering why some manufacturers use hexagonal steel wire as their core wire in making their bass strings and others use round steel wire? What are the reasons for using either type of steel wire as the core for making bass strings? Thank you, Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091117/480259a2/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:51:38 -0800 From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Question- Bass Strings Message-ID: <02787A3E0B101533261C001002 at David> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" I think you asked this before...? I think? only universal bass strings have hexagonal core wire? Grotrian successfully used hex core wire for their bass strings. In the 70's a company ,in France, made a bass string making machine that could make any length string you wanted. It was not based on the Lathe concept. Darned near bought one, but was vetoed by wife at the time as it being too expensive. Wish I would have gone ahead with that! There is nothing wrong with hex core wire. mixing hex core and round core can have bad consequences. (but, not always.<G>) There were probably other manufacturers that used that technology, but Grotrian is the only one I've seen. Perhaps some of the Euro techs may know more info. Regards, Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091116/af200385/attachment.htm>
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