<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I restrung several grands (end 19th Century) with Puresound and I was happy with the sound. <o:p></o:p> On a few I had string breakage problems and I’ve heared from a good bass string maker that the quality was not always consistent and that he often had to remake broken strings for his clients. (also afther rescaling jobs)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’d like to try the Paulello wire wich I heared is also good. Here is the site : http://www.stephenpaulello.com/pdf/Paulello%20piano%20wire.pdf<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I used his strings but for antique pianos 1830 – 1840 and realy like the results.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Pierre<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Message d'origine----- De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] De la part de John Delacour Envoyé : mercredi 24 octobre 2007 1:07 À : <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech List</st1:PersonName> Objet : RE: down to the wire <o:p> </o:p> At 11:59 -0500 23/10/07, Porritt, David wrote:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> >JD:<o:p></o:p> ><o:p> </o:p> >Do you have any experience with Pure Sound wire? Comments?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have no direct experience of it but am interested in others' <o:p></o:p> experience of it, which I pick up from various quarters, including on <o:p></o:p> this list, and I have so far had no reason on that basis to be <o:p></o:p> convinced of its qualities, which are very vaguely advertised. I <o:p></o:p> keep an open mind on it, but am more interested in cast steel wire of <o:p></o:p> various tensile strengths from other sources. For strings in the low <o:p></o:p> bass of short pianos, where the tension is normally a low percentage <o:p></o:p> of the yield point, I think almost certainly a core wire of wire with <o:p></o:p> lower tensile strength can give improved tone and I am about to take <o:p></o:p> my experiments a little further, since the little work I have done so <o:p></o:p> far is quite promising.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> For much of my work, however, at least as regards bass string making, <o:p></o:p> I need wire that has a _higher_ tensile strength, such as the old <o:p></o:p> Poehlmann wire, since many old scales from good makers such as <o:p></o:p> Schiedmayer,Blüthner, Rittmüller etc. were designed for higher <o:p></o:p> tensions than the R wire will withstand.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have a suspicion that what is lacking in modern wires is <o:p></o:p> (certainly) not chromium but more likely nickel. We shall see.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> JD<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>