<!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 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I wonder how tight the pin is?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>If I run into one of these with a previously replaced string, I raise it above pitch then I tune the piano. Last thing I do is tune that string.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I haven't noticed that universal strings, stretched any more than normal replaced strings.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Although, I suppose that would depend, on how close the match was.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></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=paul@bruesch.net href="mailto:paul@bruesch.net">paul bruesch</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> Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:12 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Replacement Bass String won't hold tune</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I scheduled a tuning on a piano that's "not too old, but not new, either."  Customer says that a few tunings back (I'm hearing at least five years ago) a bass string broke... oops, she said "one of the lower strings on the left" broke... during tuning. Tuner replaced it, but "you know how new strings are... they keep stretching" and it doesn't hold a tune. Now, I'm thinking that perhaps it was replaced with a universal string and maybe it's the <tone>, not the <tune> that gets her attention. Do (universal ) bass strings continue to stretch considerably more than plain-wire treble strings?? <BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Paul Bruesch<BR>Stillwater, MN<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>