wrong?/tubby bass

[Dave Sanderson]

On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 17:08:30 -0600 skroeker@MTS.Net (Stan Kroeker)
writes:
>I, together with Innoclean Technologies of Winnipeg,
> have been experimenting with ultrasound cleaning of these
>'tubby' sounding iron wound strings over the past two years,
>with encouraging results.
Stan
Your labor costs must be fairly high, no? While you may be saving
on materials aren't you actually spending more time doing this than
the three hours it would take to replace the set?

I feel like adding one more "been there, done that" to this
tubby problem.  I once tried cigarette lighter refill butane.
(At least I think it was butane). It was compressed gas and
it came in a pressure type can. I sprayed it on the bass
strings while still in the piano, freezing them stone cold.
I then played the piano with the frozen strings.  It was the
most absolutely beautiful sound you could ever imagine.

Just one problem.  Not what goes up must come down, not
what goes around comes around, but rather.....what goes down
must come up...and as they warmed up, the unpleasant tubby
sound was right there.
Don't ask why I tried that....I don't even know.
David Sanderson
Pianobiz@juno.com