<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=aras6310@yahoo.se href="mailto:aras6310@yahoo.se">Aras</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 20, 2007 4:51 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><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="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">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> <P> <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></BODY></HTML>