On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > > Wound strings which broke at the loop, something I have only had happen >> once in my 40 years in the business prior to these. >> Michael Magness >> > > > Ah, there it is. It isn't the wire that has the problem, it's the string > maker. Been there. > Ron N > > Hi John, I'm going to make an assumption, something I rarely do, especially in this forum and guess that you make your bass string loops in what I refer to as the "european style". Which is a tight round loop as opposed to the typical american style which is a long oval loop. The breakage to which I refer occurred on the right side of the loop the left as you look at the pic below, past the twist and into the loop itself about 7-8mm, in all cases, as I was chipping, using an ETD set to and locked on the note in question. This was the 2nd pass after roughing to pitch using a used spinet as reference, it had been brought in for other work and I tuned it prior to using it for that reference. Most broke at the time, some broke overnight. They were replaced, I had no further difficulty except I had to advise the customer that delivery would be delayed due to this problem. When I delivered it he made the offer of his son's expertise. <http://www.uscconlinealbum.com/pianoman/mobile-uploads/_entry/29ac32d3e409fe58/jsps/media-view#> Mike I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com <http://www.ifixpianos.com/> email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090212/fe4ba34e/attachment.html>
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