[CAUT] Can't hear the forest for the trees

[johnparham at piano88.com]

If it's a string winding issue you want to isolate, try CA glue on the
end of the winding.  It has helped for me in the past.  You may also try
crimping a tiny bit of winding to the end of the string to change the
mass to see what effect it has.

John Parham
Hickory, NC

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Can't hear the forest for the trees
> From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>
> Date: Sat, August 15, 2009 4:07 pm
> To: caut at ptg.org
> At 07:26 AM 8/15/2009, Bill wrote:
> >What is the chance the problem would be solved by moving the hammer 
> >of the offending note a mm or so in or out, to change the place 
> >where it hits the string?  Any other suggestions?
> I think that the chances of this working are not good.
> I think that a new bass string might help, but maybe some of the 
> sound might be in the agraffe. Possibly you could try lowering the 
> pitch a good deal (like a fifth or so) and taking a string hook, and 
> pulling the string around the hole in the agraffe some, maybe 
> smoothing over the edges of a notch the string has carved for itself 
> over time.
> It's something you could try (only on the worst offending string) to 
> see if it helps, probably without breaking the string. If the 
> offending overtone is unchanged, then maybe you could replace only 
> the one string, to see if that works, before ordering a whole set.
> Have you tried twisting one of the bad strings? Maybe the wraps are 
> getting loose.
> What one wouldn't want to happen would be to replace the whole set, 
> and then find that the problem was the same or even worse. Working on 
> one note till it was better would prevent this.
> Susan Kline