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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Susan and List. Gregor phoned me =
from Germany
simply to ask whether I had put his strings on yet - and that '8mm =
stretching'
business was his reason for phoning. He said (inter alia) one of his =
clients had
kept a set of strings for two years and then phoned with a complaint of =
loss of
tone. So I'm hurrying things along. I have only today to complete the
restringing and am down to 39 notes left (A3) They're all slack as yet, =
of
course! S&S have this large gap in their stringing table - it goes =
in
half-steps to guage 16 1/2 then suddenly there's a whole load of =
guage 17.
Any reason, anyone, why I shouldn't insert a =
guage 17
1/2 in there at note 39 and continue to the specified change to 18 at =
note
35?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From a pelting down cool Sussex Downs. =
Glad to be
going to Verona tomorrow!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G.(UK)</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=skline@peak.org href="mailto:skline@peak.org">Susan =
Kline</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 04, 2005 =
7:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> re: Restringing the =
Middle
section of Michael G's S&S 'A'</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 07:00 PM 8/4/2005 +0100, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial =
size=2>My string
maker, Gregor Heller, advises me to "get those bass strings on pdq. =
In
manufactur they are under tension and increase their lenght by 8mm. =
Left un
tensioned for any length of time results in poor tonal
quality.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT>Does anyone else corroborate this? In =
school,
I put a set of bass strings on Ted Sambell's Pleyel grand. Ted had =
wound the
strings a number of years earlier, preparing for the rebuild he hadn't =
had
time to get into. They sounded just fine. <BR><BR>Susan
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