[pianotech] Steinway A Bass String Rescaling

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Fri May 22 21:56:57 MDT 2009


David Love wrote:
> 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

Sure does, and they sure do.
Ron N


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