SV: iron wound strings

[Don]

Hi,

I tune a small (recent production) Everett that has two aluminium wound
strings on the treble bridge, and copper in the bass.

At 10:31 AM 4/21/2007 +0200, you wrote:
>William,
>There were even manufacturers who blended iron and cupper wound strings. It
>can be seen in old pianos where they have put in iron wound strings before
>the tenor breake. This was not done because the cupper was expensive or so
>but simply because of tone quality benefits. 
>Iron wound strings are not bad at all - they have another sound and some
>people like it and some dont.
>Aras
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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