SV: iron wound strings

[Joel A. Jones]

Aras,

Maybe I'm showing my age, but I wouldn't
consider the Everett model 11 an 'old'
piano.  They mixed two kinds of wrap.
Still see many of those guys still going
  in schools, chuches, etc.

Joel
Joel Jones, RPT
Madison, WIl
On Apr 21, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Aras 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
>
> "William R. Monroe" <pianotech at a440piano.net> skrev:
>>
>> How about iron wound strings? I've a client with a rather old Baldwin 
>> that
>> has iron wound strings, in need of a new pinblock/strings, etc. The 
>> client
>> is interested in keeping the strings iron wound and I've never 
>> replaced
>> irons wound with copper wound. Are there pitfalls to be aware of? What
>> kind of tonal difference would one expect if we were comparing new 
>> iron to
>> new copper? I'd also be interested in arguments in favor of and 
>> against
>> keeping them iron.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> William R. Monroe
>>
>>
>
>
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