<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I used to think it wasn't desirable to put a splice in the speaking length. After reading, and seeing (hearing) some successful splices, I've done it on several occasions with excellent results. You'll need to remove about 1" of winding for the splice. Try it, you'll like it.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It causes me to wonder why a knot in the speaking length doesn't cause nasty inharmonicity with its partner string, yet some bass string makers have trouble making bass strings match.  Things that make you go "hmmmm".</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dave Davis, RPT<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Geoffrey Arnold <welltemperedtuning@yahoo.com><BR>To: caut@ptg.org<BR>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:40:07 PM<BR>Subject: [CAUT] Bass String Thread<BR><BR> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV>Hi All,<BR><BR>What if the wire breaks half an inch from the winding? I remember seeing some journal comment about the possibility of cheating a little extra work room by unwinding a few coils, in a pinch of course.... this would make a bichord noisy, and isn't desirable for the single's inharmonicity, and I've never even gotten it to work.... but what if you are in the must splice scenario?<BR><BR>Greg<BR></DIV></DIV><BR> <HR SIZE=1> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49938/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Never miss an email again!<BR>Yahoo! Toolbar</A> alerts you the instant new Mail arrives.<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49937/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/" target=_blank rel=nofollow> Check it out.</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></DIV></div></body></html>