[CAUT] Storing spare bass strings

[Michelle Stranges]

Anyone remember my nifty thingy I made to hang bass strings on?
(It was made by flipping upside down an upright let-off rail and  
hanging each string on it's respective/numbered let-off eye hook.)

Sure made retrieval easy and at a glance, which strings you need to  
order.

Surely this could be kept in some containier where the humidity is  
regulated well.

Sorry I don't have a picture, but it was is the Journal a coupla  
years back.

:)
On May 12, 2006, at 7:16 AM, A440A at aol.com wrote:

>
> << Particularly we want to have a spare for each of the wound  
> strings on
> an S&S D (particularly mono and bi chords).  It is my understanding
> that wound strings are wound under tension and that if they aren't
> shortly returned to and kept under some tension will degrade to some
> extent >>
>
> Greetings,
>      My logic and experience are both different.  I have kept a set  
> of these
> strings, unused,  in a sealed PVC tube for the last 18 years at the  
> school.
> Last year I needed  one and upon installation, it looked and  
> sounded like a
> brand new string.  Carbon steel doesn't deteriorate unless it is  
> stressed beyond
> its elastic limit, or subjected to corrosive influences.  The  
> copper , I
> think, does all of its resolution of stress instantly, since it is  
> so malleable.
> When the string maker takes it off the winding machine, it suffers  
> all the
> deformation it is going to.
>     My suggestion is to simply put the strings in a straight,   
> airtight,
> container and don't worry about it.
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>