<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 = rightMargin=7> <DIV>Hello Michael.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for advise.  That cleaning was a joke.  I too did = this on my very first restoration project, and of course will never do it = again.  But this makes me think about something interesting to distinguish : = </DIV> <DIV>there is the dead, tubby sound as opposed to the lively, normal = bright sound</DIV> <DIV>and there is a normal bright sound as opposed to a normal bright = sound with extra singing upper partials on forte playing.</DIV> <DIV>My goal would be to control just those extra upper ziiing, if = possible not touching the timbral shape of the note.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best regards.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stéphane Collin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=collin.s@skynet.be href="mailto:collin.s@skynet.be">Stéphane Collin</A> ; <A title=pianotech@ptg.org = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 = 12:12 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bass strings = control - cleaning them</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Hello Stephane</DIV> <DIV>Someone on the List already in great difficulty thru' cleaning 10 = year old Bass strings - they've gone dead and tubby sounding he said. I = wouldn't advise cleaning bass strings at all - just opens a whole can of worms. = Reason is the stuff (if it's liquid) gets into the interstices of the copper = covering and cruds up the core.</DIV> <DIV>Regards </DIV> <DIV>Michael G.(UK)</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>