Everett (?aluminum) wound string

[Carl Meyer]

The PSCALE program has provisions for Aluminum wraps.

If you send me the speaking length in mm, the tail length in mm, the core diam in inches and the OD of the wrap in inches for the broken string I will give you the new numbers to order for copper.  Boston Piano service can make you a string.  You may want to replace both if it is a bichord.  This may not work if copper of the right size is not available.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dabell58@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Everett (?aluminum) wound string


> Dear List,
> 
> I am in a pickle trying to replace a wound string on an Everett console
> from the mid-80's. The winding is grey, and by reading the archives I think
> it is aluminum. Replacing the string with a copper-wound universal string
> which mikes to the same dimensions as the removed string is not only a poor
> idea tone-wise but doesn't work because the string can't be drawn up to
> pitch without breaking (don't ask). 
> 
> Any suggestions? Specialized string-supplier, some sort of equivalency
> table between aluminum and copper windings (clearly a copper winding would
> need to be smaller than the aluminum one so it could get up to pitch),
> something I haven't thought of? The customer has borrowed the piano for a
> year from her father and isn't really excited about anything expensive, but
> I hate to leave the string unreplaced.
> 
> Any help much appreciated.
> 
> Dorrie Bell
> Boston, MA
> 
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