I just looked....and no, no wedges anywhere. It must be just some bad strings? Paul Roy <roy.peters at mindspring.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 04/23/2009 08:23 PM Please respond to Roy <roy.peters at mindspring.com>; Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To pianotech at ptg.org cc Subject Re: [pianotech] bass strings installation Paul: Sorry if this seems too obvious. Could you have left a wedge in right at that spot? You might want to check to be sure that all of the wedges are out from under the soundboard. Roy Peters -----Original Message----- From: Paul T Williams Sent: Apr 23, 2009 5:55 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] bass strings installation David I found agreeably that most well made bass strings shouldn't need the twist. but the last two from Arledge did indeed need it. Only 1 twist instead of the old timer's 1.5 or even 2. The Baldwin R that I just replaced with Mapes had no luck with twisting, no twisting, or twisting 2 times. I think I'll send them back...Just the 3 bi-chords in the lower treble.. The rest were fine. HOWEVER...The downbearing just in this spot was not very good. Perhaps it's that???? the immediate plain wire strings from there up are just fine. It's not the hammers. The pluck test shows that they're tubby. But all 3 bi-chords only?? Seems like this is a bridge issue...How then would the rest of lower treble bridge make such a great sound? I Wapinized the whole thing, and the sustain, after all the extra work, is just great and am happy with the piano in general. Can a bridge have loss of downbearing just in that spot? I'm really perplexed on this one, unless it's just 6 bad bass strings... Advise from all wecome! Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/38e02794/attachment-0001.html>
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