---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 9/14/01 9:22:22 AM Central Daylight Time,=20 jajones2@facstaff.wisc.edu writes: > Wim, > Are these strings brass or look like brass? If so I would check the=20 > composition of the metal. My experience is with brass looking wire, which= =20 > was another metal that was low tension. I can=E2=80=99t remember but it=20= was call=20 > phorphorous something> The strings in the low bass area have been=20 > replaced. However the sound timbre has changed. The bass strings are "brass" and are the ones, for the most part, that are=20 breaking. One thought I had on this is that there are three notes with .025=20 brass strings. I don't have any more of that size, but I do have .024 in=20 steel. Would that be a good substitute, or does the timbre change too much? > Enjoy harpsichord work ! As Avery points out, this is part of=20 > University work that isn=E2=80=99t in the manual. How were the harpsichor= ds=20 > maintained before you arrived? My position is that the harpsichordist an= d=20 > student players should know how to maintain, tune, and regulate their own=20 > instrument. Being that the adjustments and tuning change before you put=20 > your hammer away, the performers need to be able to do their own=20 > maintenance. Between regularly scheduled maintenance - keep in tune.... > Joel >=20 I was told the previous tuner did tune them, but I have a feeling he only=20 tuned them when someone said it needed to be done. I plan, from now on, to=20 tune the h'chords and the fortepiano on a regular, once every other week=20 basis, whether they get used or not. (plus, of course, before a concert).=20 Because of the bad shape they were in, I put a note by each one that no one=20 is supposed to try to tune them, and that if someone does want it tuned, or=20 if a string breaks, they are supposed to fill out a piano repair form. I=20 guess I need to find out who the h'chord players are, and perhaps give them=20= a=20 lesson on tuning etc.=20 Thanks for your thoughts on the matter.=20 Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d8/fe/3f/e9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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