iron wound strings

[Philippe Errembault]

Hello Everybody, Hello Aras

A novice question...

What does it means, when you say that a string goes "Dumb", or 'Dead" like Vince Mrykalo said ? 
What happens in terms of sound, and in terms of its inner structure ? How do you recognise it ?

Best regards, 

Philippe Errembault

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aras 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:51 PM
  Subject: SV: iron wound strings


  William,
  Gregor Heller will surely make any basstrings you want
  www.hellerbass.de
  I once learned from an old factory chief that when iron wound string became dumb you should just take down the tension to about zero and then tune them up again.
  It actually worked on a piano I tuned.
  Aras

  "William R. Monroe" <pianotech at a440piano.net> skrev:
    Hi folks,

    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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