Iron wound strings

[gordon stelter]

Don't know. That's just what someone told me once.
Perhaps its because its a bit harder, and the core
wire, if octagonal, doesn't "bite" into it as much.
     G. Stelter

--- Phillip Ford <fordpiano@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Why would iron lose its grip on the core wire faster
> than copper?
> 
> Phil F
> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:56:11 -0700 (PDT) gordon
> stelter <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure that the rapid onset of tubbyness
> > in iron
> > wound strings is as much a result of corrosion 
> > ( malleable iron is pretty
> > corosion-proof---look at
> > the mysterious column of solid malleable iron
> > they dug
> > up in India )as it is that they quickly lose
> > their
> > grip on the core wire.
> 


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