<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Good going and wishing well the project.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Compare breaking strength.</DIV><DIV>Compare malleability.</DIV><DIV>Compare fracture time with working.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Daniel Gurnee, RPT, HSU Retired</DIV> <DIV><DIV>On Aug 27, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Jim Busby wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1">List,<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P>We (BYU) finally are ready to do some scientific studies of stainless wire. This will be conducted by Physics professors/students here at BYU. Could any of you help me pose some “questions”, “queries” or whatever you want to call it, for these studies?<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P>One of our student piano technicians is doing his senior project and his professors (who we’ve bugged for years) are just now getting excited about this.<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P>Here are some things I’ve thought of;<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P><OL style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">What are the actual differences in sound between stainless and Mapes or Roslau? (Spectrum, etc.)<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">What are the differences in inharmonicity between the two?<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">(how?) Do bass strings with stainless core sound different than other core?<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">etc….<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></LI></OL><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P>Jim Ellis, others, I’d really like some input on this. We have our ducks in a row so now is the time.<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </O:P>Thanks,<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P>Jim Busby BYU<O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> </BODY></HTML>