iron wound strings

Don pianotuna at accesscomm.ca
Mon Apr 23 13:52:53 MDT 2007


Hi Chris,

Replace both strings. Contact your favorite string maker and send them the
measurements they ask for of the existing string.

At 08:32 AM 4/23/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply, Ann.  No, the piano doesn't warrant the extra expense. 
>It's an old Bell upright at the local Legion, and some previous technician 
>replaced the last bi-chord before the tenor break with copper wound of a 
>much lighter scale.  The note sounds horrible, and can't be tuned.  My 
>problem is to find the right string weight in copper to come close to the 
>original scale, which was all done in iron wound.
>
>Chris Strube
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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