has anyone ever tried this?

[J Patrick Draine]

Brian,While I don't know if Mike Spaulding is 100% correct that "it's all in
the bends", but if you really wanted to pre-stretch the string your could
take some old pinblock(s), pound in a hitchpin, perhaps make some kind of
bridge, drive a tuning pin in an appropriate tuning pin hole, and pull it up
to tension. So .. if you really want to pre-stretch, make yourself a
monochord.
Patrick

On 11/6/07, Brian Doepke <bdoepke at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> The piano wire is from a bi-chord and it has 1 wrapping of copper around
> the
> core.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> I still can't believe that someone has not discovered a way to
> "pre-stretch"
> a new bass string.  Maybe something like hanging a weight on the end
> without
> the loop?
>
> Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee)
>
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