I'm a believer in string braid. Some of those short back scale lengths produce some loud sounds. I had a piano here that rang loud and long making it sound like the damper of B5 was not working at all. It was the back scale length of a note in the low tenor. I guess if you don't have any of those segments ringing you're ok, but I generally don't like odd strings generating non-harmonic noise. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/28/2003 at 7:55 AM Phil Bondi wrote: >Good Morning to all. > >I recently completed my 3rd re-string of my brief career..2 Baldwin Grands >and a newer Wurlitzer Grand that had pre-maturely rusted. > >This last re-string has further convinced me of my conviction of the >following: > >Stringing Braid is not necessarily necessary. > >There was alot of stringing braid that came off of this >Baldwin(#17907..circa 1911)..the bass bridge wire was braided, and the low >tenor to about A4 was braided. That's over 1/2 of the instrument being >braided. > >Why? > >Is there some musical significance to stringing braid? If there is, I'm not >hearing it. > >I am of the belief that a wire on a piano should be allowed to speak freely >without any restrictions. The piano is the only stringed instrument that I >can think of that uses a dampening agent(?) on its waste area for the >purpose of........... > >That's my question: What is the purpose of stringing braid? If its purpose >is to dampen overtones, aren't the overtones necessary in the production of >sound? If the purpose of stringing braid is to 'pretty up' the piano, then >I'm guilty of not wanting to pretty it up in that fashion, because I'm not >hearing anything that requires it to be 'prettier'. > >I'm looking forward to the responses. > >-Phil Bondi (Fl.) >phil@philbondi.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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