<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Hi Wim,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The straight set wasn’t wrapped and the color was a bit darker than the older wrapped set. Both fairly dead. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Regards,<o:p></o:p> Jim<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:25 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Dead (New) bass strings<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> In a message dated 8/16/07 9:23:46 A.M. Hawaiian Standard Time, jim_busby@byu.edu writes:<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> List,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> While trying to save some bucks I used an old (10 years?) set of bass strings for a D. They were still coiled and wrapped in plastic. About ½ of them were dead! Sooo… I have another spare set (About 4 years old) hanging straight on some hooks for emergency repairs. The trichords were also dead, for the most part. Rolled or straight, wrapped or in open air, it doesn’t seem to matter.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I don’t get it. How can bass strings go dead in storage? And, why? There was a thread on this months ago, but it seems totally bizarre to me that this could happen. I’ve been told to ALWAYS order a fresh set.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>  I guess a penny saved is a penny wasted.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Jim Busby BYU<o:p></o:p> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div> Jim<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Although you are in a relatively dry climate, I wonder if having the strings wrapped in plastic could have actually cause them to become dead, because the plastic would prevent any moisture that was in the package, which came from Mapes in Tennessee, (lots of humidity), to escape.  Were the ones you had hanging out of the plastic, or bare? If they were bare, i don't know why they would be dead.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Back in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:City> I would carry several sets of universals in my car. Some of them would be in there for 3 or 4 years before I would have a chance to use them, and they would be dead. I could see the tarnish in the copper. I suspect that with the high humidity they would get a little moist, even though they were packed in a box and wrapped in paper. <o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Just my take on the subject.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:7.5pt;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> Get a sneak peek of the all-new <a href="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" target="_blank" title="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982">AOL.com</a>.<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>