Mapes is the current supplier of wound strings for Steinway. James James Grebe Est. 1962 Piano Tuner-Technician Creator of Custom Caster Cups Creator of Fine Writing Instruments Piano benches Theatre and Theatre Organ Historian www.grebepiano.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 (314) 608-4137 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bass String Length Mismatch Tuning Trouble >I don't know who made the strings, but if I had to guess it was Mapes. > The rebuilder also sells new famous NY-made pianos - and I think they > have their bass strings made by Mapes. But I don't know any of that > for sure. > > Terry Farrell > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > >> 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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