Just outta curiosity, what did the other end look like? Were the wrappings done in "long-short-long-short, etc" fashion all the way down through the bichords? Or were they offset kinda like they would be if put on in the wrong order with staggered hitch pins? Inquiring minds... ;-) Brian From: mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:49:28 -0500 Subject: [pianotech] Bass String Length Mismatch Tuning Trouble I don't have much experience with un-equal length bass string unisons that can't be tuned beatless being fixed with new equal-length strings. Has anyone done this, and can anyone offer an experienced opinion on whether lengths of a couple millimeters difference in the wrapped speaking length in a pair of unisons would commonly present tuning problems? Needless to say (I think?), I found all the bicord pairs in the picture below to be impossible to tune beatless - the best I could do was leave most of 'em with slow roll. A few were a fair bit worse. The wrap terminations are at the same position (equal distant from speaking bridge pins) at the bridge end, thus rendering unequal wrapped speaking lengths. The work on this Baldwin F blew me away - it was "rebuilt" by a company that is quite arguably the most respected in my area (or at least best known because of brand affiliation). If you ordered a set of strings, installed them and saw this, wouldn't you send the back to the string maker (after checking your measurements again to make sure you didn't provide bogus data)? Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110107/d3c78e95/attachment.htm>
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