Interestingly, and to this point, left to their own devices virtually every bass string make around (and that includes GC, Arledge, JD Grandt, Sanderson) alters the low bass scaling on Steinways by reducing the thickness of the core wire. The rave reviews you hear about the magic of string winding from GC or anybody else and how great their strings sound has everything to do with scaling choices they make and not the mythical string winder they have hiding in the back room. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com I do know that more reasonably sized core wires, tensions, and break% produce a much nicer bass than was typically originally there. These parameters aren't chosen to make the inharmonicity curve go anywhere in particular, they are chosen to improve the partials mix and sound, and the lower inharmonicity is the incidental result. Ron N
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