<!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 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Thinking about this post, I've re-sent it to edit 'streched' to 'tensioned'. Also, I should have thanked Joe DeFazio for pointing this out to me in the first place, thanks Joe.</DIV> <DIV>Fenton</DIV> <DIV>Gold Plated, could be. My wife's mutt will recover, Ron, so no worries. I'll send some out, just an inch or two though, it GOLD for cryin' out loud. So, a wire of a specific material, TENSIONED to a given pitch, will be at a specific breaking point % regardless of it's diameter. Is this correctly stated? I never stop learning. Fenton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <<A href="">rnossaman@cox.net</A>> To: "Pianotech List" <<A href="">pianotech@ptg.org</A>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: Re: chickering quarter grand-re-scale trichords > >> Ron, >> You know it hurts my feelings when you talk to me like that. Now I'm just >> going to go take it out on someone else. I just laid some on a magnet, >> yes the magnet attracts the wire, I would not have thought otherwise. > > Hi Fenton, > I just thought that would pretty easily rule out phosphor bronze or > anything else non ferrous, and got a chance to pick on you too. <G> > > >>I don't know about the non-living organic particulate material make up, >>but there is so much I don't know, it's astounding. For the life of me, I >>probably would have kept a scrap of this wire in a drawer to my dying day >>with out ever wondering what it was, now with an interest in analyzing the >>scales of the pianos I string and this talk of break point %, I'd like to >>know. > > My memory isn't what it probably never was anymore, but then how would I > know? I do recall list talk of a piano with gold plated music wire though, > and I think that's what you've got. > > >>Can I mail you a piece? >> Fenton > > Of music wire, right? I haven't seen any of the stuff yet so, yes! I'd be > honored. > Ron N > > </DIV></BODY></HTML>