[pianotech] Bass String Length Mismatch Tuning Trouble

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Fri Jan 7 09:04:11 MST 2011


On 1/7/2011 5:49 AM, Terry Farrell wrote:

> 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)?

It depends on where the strings came from, and my expectations. Judging 
by the 20-25mm bare end lengths at the agraffe, does anyone else out 
there do that besides Mapes? Whatever, I doubt that's the cause of the 
tuning problem.

Ron N


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