strings 'n stuph

[Farrell]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul S. Larudee" <larudee@pacbell.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: strings 'n stuph


> Ron,
>
> My thought was that their inventory of bass strings is never exactly the
same
> quantity of the same string numbers, and they make quantities of numbers
as
> they need them.  When they switched to copper, they had some leftover iron
for
> that number and decided to use them rather than let them go to waste.  On
the
> other hand, maybe someone just found a quantity of that number that had
been
> misplaced long ago and decided to use them for the same reason and because
they
> were still in good shape.
>
> Paul

OR, somebody in the factory knew a technician like Ron would dig into the
piano someday and finding two odd strings would just drive him CRAZY! And
make him write notes to everyone asking WHY, WHY, WHY!!!!

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com

>
> Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
> > >Factory leftovers?  Didn't want them to go to waste?
> > >
> > >Paul S. Larudee, RPT
> >
> > Go to waste from what? Before you go trying to tell me that they
exported a
> > piano with all steel wound strings except a copper wound F# bichord, I
> > already thought of that and I ain't buying it.
> >
> > So nobody knows huh?
> > Ron N
>
>