Stephen Birkett wrote: > Richard asked: > > List, and in particular Stephen Birkett and Steve Brady (if you are out > > there) I got an interesting telephone call today from one Juan MasCabre, > > an Hollander of spanish decent who sent me up a bunch of information and > > price lists on a new type of piano wire called Pure Tone. Nice guy.. > > obviously very enthusiastic about his work. He states that the string has > > just a bit less tensil strenght the Roslau but has > > significantly I am > ^^^^^^^Richard? something missing in this sentence snip snip.. It was supposed to have read... "significantly lower inharmonicity charachteristics" > > I do believe it is worth looking into though. > > Stephen Thanks for the very informative post Stephen.. He knows a good deal about you by the way and I should say so much hello from him. I am indeed tempted to buy a starting load. I work abit with uprights from around the 1920's in an effort to learn the rebuilding side of this buisness, and anything like this intrigues me right off. I am also under the impression that if one was to design a scale with this wire, then scaleing programs like PScale and Mensurix and the like would not work. Got any suggestions about what to do in this regard ? > > > Stephen Birkett Fortepianos > Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos > 464 Winchester Drive > Waterloo, Ontario > Canada N2T 1K5 > tel: 519-885-2228 > mailto: birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca -- Richard Brekne Associate PTG, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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