They surely do look unequal. I wouldn't accept it, although I couldn't say for sure what exact unison tuning problems it would cause. It certainly doesn't help to get clean unisons. Did you check the string level and hammer mating? If the strings are out of phase, you won't get clean unisons. Might help things. -- JF On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote: > 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/20110107/0e6cc9ed/attachment.htm>
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