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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>Re: Bass strings/Willem's response </B><BR>
Date:5/1/2002 9:46:04 AM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:BobDavis88@AOL.COM">BobDavis88@AOL.COM</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman Greek" LANG="0"><I> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></I>Rob ,Willem</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Yeah and imagine how you'd feel after being strung up at 160 lbs of tension for a 100 years ,you'd be fatigued too. Two words, metal fatigue<BR>
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n a message dated 05/01/2002 8:54:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, <BR>
Wimblees@AOL.COM writes:<BR>
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> Unlike bass strings, treble strings do not become "shot." <BR>
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Yes, they do become fatigued. Take as an example a practice room piano which <BR>
is used 12 hours a day. It may go through a set of treble strings in a few <BR>
years. They may remain new and shiny looking, but they all break at the capo. <BR>
The same process is at work on all pianos; the practice room situation just <BR>
accelerates it. <BR>
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The customer isn't going to be happy with the instability of replacing treble <BR>
strings one at a time. The extra day to do them all is well worth it. I never <BR>
replace bass strings only unless the piano is VERY young and the bass strings <BR>
are dead because of unusual circumstances. Someone else can take the headache <BR>
of explaining to the client why his piano is never in tune.<BR>
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Bob Davis</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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