Dave, I haven't tried it, but I bet it would make a real improvement. Come to think of it, that WAS the sort of sound I got on that one note. Steve On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, David M. Porritt wrote: > Steve: > > Do you think the low end of the plain wire section on small consoles > could be helped by using this stainless steel wire? The scale > tensions in that area give such a funky sound. Is that the kind of > sound you got from that one unison of modern wire? I'd think barbed > wire could be better than much of what I hear on these undersized > PSOs. :-) > > dave > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 11/10/01 at 10:04 AM S. Brady wrote: > > >Ted, Stephen, and list: > > > >I've used this wire on an 1830-something Chickering, and it worked > >beautifully. It does have a lower tensile strength than modern wire, > but > >so did the original wire on these old 19th-cent. instruments. I ran > short > >and had to string one note with modern wire, and the tone just stuck > out > >like a sore thumb on that note. The "Pure Sound" wire has a sweet, > >gorgeous tonal character, while the note strung in modern wire > sounded > >hard and clangy. Of course, I immediately ordered more wire to > replace the > >modern wire. I believe one of the reasons the modern wire sounded so > bad > >is that it was too far below its breaking point; in other words, it > was > >too strong for the application. > > > >Steve > > > >On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Stephen Birkett wrote: > > > >> Ted wrote: > >> > I am curious about the stainless steel wire advertized in the > Journal. > >= > >> > Has anyone used it? Or intending to? I was taught that the main > = > >> > objection to it was that its breaking strain was not high > enough, but = > >> > wonder if the metallergy has improved for this particular make > of > >wire. = > >> > If so it would be a true breakthrough. > >> > >> Haven't tried it, but tensile stength is less than modern steel > piano > >> wire. It is an alloy comp. chosen to match, with an existing > modern > >> alloy, reasonably closely the properties of earlier steel wire. > >> > >> > > > >_________________________________________________ > > > >Steve Brady, RPT > >Head Piano Technician, University of Washington > >Editor Emeritus, Piano Technicians Journal > > > _____________________________ > David M. Porritt > dporritt@mail.smu.edu > Meadows School of the Arts > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, TX 75275 > _____________________________ > > _________________________________________________ Steve Brady, RPT Head Piano Technician, University of Washington Editor Emeritus, Piano Technicians Journal
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