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Terry, just substitute "a high quality instrument" for "Steinway" and I
think you'll get what Tom meant. He just mentioned Steinway because
we are more likely to run into them. Picking that name to represent
quality instruments seems logical to me. I think he was expecting
to be flamed because of the idea of maybe leaving in the piano a string
of the wrong size.
<p>Tom, are you aware that there are universal strings available larger
than #1? Schaff has sizes 01 through 06 with outside diameters going
up to .194, but they are all single-wound for obvious reasons. I
needed to use one only once. It's no fun trying to remove windings
of that size to make it fit, believe me.
<p>Regards, Clyde
<p>Farrell wrote:
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<font face="Arial">Tighten your flame
suit collar. Would you do it to a Mason & Hamlin? A Bosendorfer? A
Bechstein? A remanufactured Behr Bros? A remanufactured Wissner? A remanufactured
Bush & Lane? A remanufactured Weber? Why would you single out a Steinway
& S<b><i>O</i></b>ns? Do you have a Pierce Atlas? Check it out, there
are/were more high-quality manufacturers than just Steinway & S<b><i>O</i></b>ns.</font> <font face="Arial">Terry
Farrell</font>
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<font face="Geneva"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>I was called in
to tune the piano at a restaurant, and replace a bass string which had
broken. The piano was a Story & Clark (Samick) and is full of
false beats in the treble and dead, tubby bass strings. When I mic-ed
the broken string, I found that I did not have one that size. It
was larger than a #1 Schaff universal replacement. My original plan
was to replace the string with a universal and order a duplicate of the
original to replace the universal. But not having a universal the
correct size, I thought I would just leave it as is, and return ASAP with
the dupe.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Expecting flames
from this one, I'd never do it on a Steinway, honest,</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Geneva"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Tom Sivak</font></font></font></blockquote>
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