wrong?

[James Grebe]

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> From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: wrong?
> Date: Sunday, April 06, 1997 7:20 PM
>
> >Dear list,
> >	Have I been wrong all these years thinking that the winding was iron?
> >Let me know please
> >James Grebe from St. Louis
> >pianoman@inlink.com
> >
>
> Soft iron.  It is less dense than copper so a larger winding can be use
as
> opposed to a too thin copper winding.  Often gives a sweet mellow sound.
> Iron strings do loose tone faster than copper.  Aluminum is and has been
> used when copper is just too thin to wind.
>
>         Newton
>         nhunt@jagat.com
> Dear list,
I have been vindicated.  My further query is why would iron, not steel,
wound strings sound very good at first but change to losing their tone.  Is
it because of tarnish that would settle in on soft iron very quickly or
some other reason?
thanks,
James Grebe from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com