On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com> wrote: > Thanks, Dave. The last few sets (from Arledge) I put in untwisted, with > almost no problem. Actually, if I need to "untwist" a string a little to get > it installed, I'll "twist" it to the next 1/2 turn to be safe. > > Otherwise, twisting just seems like a remedial thing. But after Paul's > reply to my post, I guess I need to experiment more to see for myself what > the difference is. > I took one of Arledge's classes. He mentioned that twisting is not necessary with his strings. That was 2-3 years ago. I'm assuming this is still true. If memory serves, it's because the core wire doesn't get twisted like it does with other string makers. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090424/b9ae82a9/attachment.html>
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