[CAUT] Stainless wire and "string stretching". What's up?

[Vincent Earl Mrykalo]

I have used puresound on the lowest 6 notes of the tenor on a small Baldwin grand (where wound strings would be an improvement, but used puresound instead), and the rest of the piano was strung with Mapes Gold.  After 6 weeks in the customer's home, i found that the Mapes Gold wire was around 16 cents or more flat, but the puresound was 4 to 5 cents flat.   

Vince Mrykalo RPT
University of Utah



-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org on behalf of Jim Busby
Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 1:17 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Stainless wire and "string stretching". What's up?
 
List,

 

I gotta toss in my two bits here. When working with stainless wire - you
put it on, lift/level coils, then it's pretty much stabile! 

 

Soooo, you say? Well, I think all the info provided on wire stretching
has been good, but you should be aware of stainless wire and the
following.

 

IMO stainless wire will become more and more relevant as time goes on.
Think about it;

1.	Almost instant stability w/o prepping
2.	No rust, ever.
3.	Chip it in, one rough tune, one fine tune, then it acts like it
was strung 6 months ago!

 

So in all your pontificating and formulas for stability keep stainless
wire in mind, because with it, all the prepping, etc. is unnecessary.
This may not be the total future of piano wire, but while others are
messing with wire stretching, etc. I'll be on to other things. :-)

 

 

Cheers,

Jim Busby


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