Yamaha C6 bass strings

[Marcel Carey]

It is kind of late for you Isaac isn't it.

Va te coucher mon vieux!  (à la blague)

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Isaac OLEG
> Sent: 12 mai, 2004 19:50
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: RE: Yamaha C6 bass strings
>
>
> Hello Andre
> Interesting info on Yamaha bass - a friend just changed them after 2
> years on a C6 with HellerBass and it was for the better.
>
> I'm learning new things any day - thanks the list !
>
> So we have 4 methods of winding :
>
> With the central wire roughened with 2 files
> Without roughening
> WIth the use of a resin /glue
> on hexagonal wire
>
> The resin is certainly not a quality factor is not it ?
>
> I've heard that the Yamaha S series bass strings where hand made,
> while the other bass where made with a special machine.
>
> Bechstein bass strings are said to be winded without
> roughening, they
> have that cymbalum quality of the HellerBass strings.
>
> I never find the hexagonal strings to have a very nice tone.
>
> About turning the strings, String makers said me that the
> strings have
> to be placed in the piano the same that when they where made, that
> mean if we have to turn them it is only to get the reaction
> turns that
> occur eventually when the strings is out of the bench.
>
> Best regards to all late at nighters .
>
> Isaac OLEG
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de antares
> Envoyé : mercredi 12 mai 2004 02:07
> À : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: Yamaha C6 bass strings
>
>
> >> Friends,
> >>
> >> No one responded to this yet, but I would like some
> input, please.
> >> I've
> >> been tuning a 1998 Yamaha C6 grand every six months for the last
> five
> >> years.  I tuned it again yesterday, and it sounds to me like some
> of
> >> the
> >> bass string windings are loose.  I think I read on this forum at
> some
> >> time that Yamaha felt their strings shouldn't need twisting.
> >>
> >> Does anyone remember any kind of discussion about this?  It seems
> to
> >> me
> >> that a piano of this caliber shouldn't be having this
> problem.  Or
> has
> >> it been a problem common in this model?  Your input is
> appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Clyde Hollinger, RPT
>
>
> At Yamaha, they use a substance on their steel to make the
> copper wire
> stick. I am sure it is a resin of some sort.
> They don't twist their strings because the resin is supposed to hold
> the copper wire tight.
> Usually this method is proficient. A mistake is always at hand.
>
> André
>
> >>
> friendly greetings
> from
> André Oorebeek
>
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