<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'>Same here. Areldge has given me great personal service. The J.D Grandt & Gac strings are also well made.
<div> More expensive and the quality is worth it to be sure,... but you get what you pay for...well...usually
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From: Mike Spalding <mike.spalding1@frontier.com><br>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2013 2:34 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Bass string maker problem<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Patrick,
Years ago. What got to me more than the occasional error was the
attitude they gave when confronted with their mistakes. Now using
Arledge. Not perfect, but they take responsibility for their quality
and fix things quickly.
Mike
On 1/16/2013 2:22 PM, Patrick Poulson wrote:
> I am having a continual problem with getting bass strings duplicated
accurately. In two instances the string duplication was good for the first half
and then the windings got longer and longer until they rode up over the capo
bar, in the first instance, and over the bridge in the second instance. These
were both upright pianos, and I did try switching the order of the strings which
only made things worse. In two other pianos, both grands, the windings in the
bichords were not as closer as the original ones. This problem showed up in sets
from both Mapes and Schaff. Up until this happened I never had such a problem. I
am about to give up and try different makers. Has anyone else been having a
similar problem, and did you wind up switching.
> Thanks,
> Patrick Poulson,RPT
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