Contact the string maker. Strings shouldn't require twisting to sound good. A small twist might help keep the winding secure but if the string is dead, something didn't go right. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mike Spalding Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:13 PM To: Pianotech Subject: New bass strings, some dead I am restringing a 30 year old S&S L for the local university. Just installed the bass strings today, and 5 of the 42 have a noticeably duller/deader tone than the rest of the set. The dead strings are not contiguous - there are bright lively strings in between the dead ones. In fact, 4 of them are one string of a bichord, where the other string is good. We're listening to plucked strings, since I don't have the action. The whole piano is chipped more or less to pitch. Original bridge cap surface planed smooth, bridge renotched, new bridge pins set in epoxy. Original agraffes reamed with pianotek reamer. Is this for sure a case of defective strings, or are there some things I should check before contacting the stringmaker? thanks Mike
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