Steve: I think I'll get some of that wire and see if I can improve the lowest area on a 243HP. I'm up to my nose in these things, I might as well use one for an experiment. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/10/01 at 5:18 PM S. Brady wrote: >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 _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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