splicing bass strings

[David Ilvedson]

It wouldn't in general but don't tell me the tied string will sound exactly like its neighbor.  No matter how you do it, it is one ugly sucker when your through.  May or may not sound ugly though.  A lot of work for a string that will go out of tune by the time your to your car.  "But I'll just mute it off!", you say.  You now have only one string sounding again AND one string of the neighbor is now muted.  What has been accomplished?  IMHO, if and only if the damper isn't working because of the missing string, you need to put something in there.  If the damper works well enough, I mail the string or call it in.    

David I.

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On 3/1/01 at 10:55 PM Ron Nossaman wrote:

>>I agree, you should have no trouble splicing in the speaking length -
>just
>>don't go peeling copper windings off to make room!
>>
>>Terry Farrell
>
>Bless me Father, for I have peeled. What the heck (there's that word
>again), if the bass string "duplicators" can do it arbitrarily, why can't I
>do it in the interest of practical expedience? Why wouldn't the extra mass
>of the splice in the speaking length offset the removed winding mass and
>leave you about where you started?
> 
>Ron N