<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jim, good piece of information. Other may have more info, but it seems to me that not having the strings set deeply in the felt, helps in the rendering. Can't wait to hear what other have to say, but I will experiment with this on future stringing jobs.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><i>Al -</i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><i>High Point, NC</i></font></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div>On Nov 11, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Jim Ialeggio <<a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Last week I tuned a Yamaha G2 which had the most friendly string rendering I have run into yet. I tune other G2's. They are not too bad, but definitely not as easy as this one was. Anyway, as I was tuning, particularly in most of the tenor section, I was nosing about, trying to figure out why it was so easy.<br><br>Termination angles seemed well worked except the last three notes of the tenor which had the usual increased termination angles. Then I noticed that the "ski-slope" felt seemed thick. This didn't make sense, so poked around at the end of the felt and saw that the felt was pretty thin, and seemed to be wrapping around a a white plastic substance. Not being able to take a biopsy of said material, my guess is that it is a UHMW plastic.<br><br>Anybody have any knowledge of what they were putting inside that felt wrapping? I meant to get the serial# (damn)but slipped my mind in the heat of battle. I would bet early 90's vintage, but could be wrong.<br><br>Jim Ialeggio<br><br>-- <br>Jim Ialeggio<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a><br>978 425-9026<br>Shirley Center, MA<br><br><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>