new user from France query

[Billbrpt@aol.com]

Dear Isaac,
    You should be able to get some of the products such as wound strings and
special lubricants such as Protek from suppliers here in the U.S. by using
overseas shipping services such as UPS or FedEx.  Your orders will take more
time, naturally than they do within the U.S.  You may have to pay in advance
with a money order drawn on a U.S. bank and/or in U.S. currency.  I'm sure
that U.S. distributors will be glad to work with you however.  Look in your
PTG Resource guide and write directly to these distributors in English to ask
them what their requirements are.
    To answer you question about the "inharmonicity cefficient".  It is the
factor which is considered when rescaling that is a sampled measure of the
amount of inharmonicity a given string will have.  When I say "sampled"
 (échantillon en Français) I do so because it is only the measurement between
the first and second partial of the string.  When tuning, of course, all of
the other partials become important.  But in rescaling, the amount of
inharmonicity between the funamental and the second partial is enough to
consider.  If the gauge of wire and/or the gauge of winding and/or its legnth
is changed, the Inharmonicity Coefficient will change as well.  It is not
necessary know what the change will be in the higher partials because this
change will always be proportinate to that of the lowest partials.  Generally
speaking, as the tension goes higher, so does the Inharmonicity Coefficient
and the percentage of tensile stregnth (the point at which the string will
break).
    I'd like to communicate more with you and Michel La Chance and any other
French Speakers in this group in French.  There are many French speaking
members of PTG as there are Spanish.  These two other languages need to have
a forum especially to normalize the nomenclature between them.
    Bill Bremmer RPT
    Madison, Wisconsin