On May 9, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Ed Sutton wrote: > A few years ago Pure Sound wire was being promoted as suitable for > use on S & S M pianos. > Has anyone tried it? > Have you had breakage problems? > Thank you. > > Ed Sutton I experimented with Pure Sound on a B a couple summers ago (piano in a classroom). I will be restringing the treble sections (capo) this summer. Far, far too much breakage. Tenor is great, and does sound noticeably better (well, it's subtle, but better - clarity and sustain, as well as a better inharmonicity match, and F2 area tunes much more easily). But the breakage in the capo section has been nearly 50%, compared to maybe as much as 5% (mostly much less) in pianos with standard wire. No broken strings (so far) in the tenor (up to C#5). I should note that I did use the extra strong wire as recommended as well as recommended scaling. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100509/76c75b9f/attachment.htm>
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