[CAUT] Mapes single bass string... resolution...

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<< If anyone knows a reason why bass strings would, in fact, have a shelf 
life, if handled as indicated above, I'd like to know. >>

I have a set of D strings that I bought in 1982.  They are kept in a sealed 
container, straight.  The last one I used was last year,and it sounded like a 
new string when I brought it up to pitch. 
     I don't think it matters whether you store them unwound or not,  the 
plastic deformation limits of the copper/steel are instantaneous, I think.  Once 
you have wound these strings in a loop, whatever shifts or movements in the 
winding are there.
Regards, 
   
Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html