Philippe,<br>A "dumb" string does not produce partials - or very little. Sounds like knocking your finger on wood.<br>Such strings can be badly made or they can have too big mass for the specific speaking lenght.<br>You might have seen it in some small grands from Grotrian and others where they have put in strings with 3 cupper wounds. They are not able to vibrate even if heavy hard hammers are used.<br>The strings might even "die" simply of age. Another stringkiller is when a mouse has come into the piano and take a pee on the basstrings.<br><br><b><i>Philippe Errembault <phil.errembault@skynet.be></i></b> skrev:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello Everybody, Hello Aras</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"
size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">A novice question...</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">What does it means, when you say that a string goes "Dumb", or 'Dead" like Vince Mrykalo said ? </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">What happens in terms of sound, and in terms of its inner structure ? How do you recognise it ?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Best regards, </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Philippe Errembault</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;
line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a title="aras6310@yahoo.se" href="mailto:aras6310@yahoo.se">Aras</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust:
none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 20, 2007 4:51 PM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> SV: iron wound strings</div> <div><br></div>William,<br>Gregor Heller will surely make any basstrings you want<br><a href="http://www.hellerbass.de">www.hellerbass.de</a><br>I once learned from an old factory chief that when iron wound string became dumb you should just take down the tension to about zero and then tune them up again.<br>It actually worked on a piano I tuned.<br>Aras<br><br><b><i>"William R. Monroe" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@a440piano.net">pianotech@a440piano.net</a>></i></b> skrev: <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">Hi folks,<br><br>How about iron wound strings? I've a
client with a rather old Baldwin that <br>has iron wound strings, in need of a new pinblock/strings, etc. The client <br>is interested in keeping the strings iron wound and I've never replaced <br>irons wound with copper wound. Are there pitfalls to be aware of? What <br>kind of tonal difference would one expect if we were comparing new iron to <br>new copper? I'd also be interested in arguments in favor of and against <br>keeping them iron.<br><br>Many thanks,<br>William R. Monroe<br><br><br></blockquote><br> <div> </div><hr size="1"> <br> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Stava rätt! Stava lätt! Yahoo! Mails stavkontroll tar hand om tryckfelen och mycket mer! Få den på <a href="http://se.mail.yahoo.com">http://se.mail.yahoo.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></blockquote><br><p> 
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