Mike: this is interesting. I had a round of bad bass strings lately as well. Ordered a set for a Milton vertical and a set for a Baldwin m. Both new sets had bad strings at the top of the bass and a couple bad ones at the beginning of the singles. I wonder if we are using the same stringmaker? Never had this problem before. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Spalding" <mike.spalding1 at verizon.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:13 PM 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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