[CAUT] Mapes single bass string... resolution...

[Porritt, David]

David:

I open them as soon as I receive them and put them on their rings and
they hang straight there in the shop.  Our climate is pretty benign and
they seem to do fine.  On the rings where the strings are kept I have
punchings between each 5 strings with the number of the strings on each
side so I don't have to count from the first string to find #37.  The
first punching has 5 on one side and 6 on the other, then next has 10 on
one side and 11 on the other etc.  The system has worked pretty well.
All of our practice room pianos (the ones that break the most) are
either Ms, Ls or 1B.  I have thought of keeping strings for the Ds but
they break so seldom that it hasn't seemed worth the investment.  

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt@smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
David Skolnik
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 4:27 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Mapes single bass string... resolution...

David P-
I used to keep multiple sets, for most of the models (St. M,L,B).  I
would 
enter in a string log book whenever one was used from inventory and 
periodically order replacements.  I don't believe there is a shelf life,

per se, but I would take some steps to be safe.
-  Order strings in largest possible loop or, even better,  straight PVC

pipe, such as what Arledge uses
-  If sent in loop, open and hand immediately
-  Keep in vented, humidity controlled cabinet, as with tuning pins and 
plain wire

If anyone knows a reason why bass strings would, in fact, have a shelf 
life, if handled as indicated above, I'd like to know.

David Skolnik


At 06:19 PM 10/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Alan:
>
>This is probably not an ideal way to do this, but I keep sets of
strings
>for Ms, Ls and Bs on rings in the shop.  Then when a string breaks I
can
>just go grab a replacement.  When I take one off the ring, I put a
>punching on the ring in its place and put the string number on it.
>About once a month I just email an order to Schaff for those missing
>strings.  I don't know if bass strings have a shelf-life but if they do
>some of mine are probably past it but I hate leaving strings off pianos
>any longer than I have to.
>
>dp
>
>David M. Porritt
>dporritt@smu.edu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
>Alan Crane
>Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:25 PM
>To: College and University Technicians
>Subject: [CAUT] Mapes single bass string... resolution...
>
>At 07:32 PM 10/3/05, you wrote:
> >I'm frustrated (and its past quitting time on a Monday...)...
>
>That was then_________ this is now.          :)
>
>In all fairness to Mapes, I should relate the rest of the story.
>Shortly after I posted my frustrations on CAUT, I sent an e-mail to
>Donna Ward (the contact person whose e-mail address appears on the
>Mapes web site) detailing the history of this particular string order.
>She sent me a very prompt and kind reply offering to credit the
>mis-made string and to forward my e-mail on to the plant so they
>could make a third try at it if I so wished.
>The string arrived today (they do ship quickly!) and was exactly to
>the specs. I'd given them.
>Its back in the piano... the students are back in the practice
>room... and I'm back in my shop trying to figure out how to get all
>the work done and still see some of the approaching weekend!!
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Alan B. Crane,  RPT
>School of Music
>Wichita State University
>alan.crane@wichita.edu
>
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