<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Arial">Is the effect bad enough, and the piano good enough, to warrant replacing those four strings?</font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>A ten year old Walter?  Yes and yes.</div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:41 AM, David Boyce wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Arial">I didn't know the "Erard" bit. When I order strings from John Delacour I specify "whipped ends" if required. Perhaps Erard invented the method.  On the Piano Strings page of my website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/piano-strings.php">http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/piano-strings.php</a> there are a couple of pics at the top of the page showing whipped ends on both old and new strings.<br> <br> The difference in length is cetainly a bit odd, Terry. How do they compare at the bottom end? If, overall, the wound length is different, that would obviously be likely to give rise to odd beats.  And even if the wwinding was the same length, but one string a bit further down, so that the windings end up nearer the bridge, the hammer then effectivel has a different striking point on the wound length and that too could surely give rise to an effect.<br> <br> Is the effect bad enough, and the piano good enough, to warrant replacing those four strings?<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David.<br> <br> <br> Terry...here is a pic posted by John Delacour a while back...he calls this an Erard whip.<br> <br> <br> </font> </div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>