[CAUT] pre-stretching new string?

[John Delacour]

At 6:55 pm -0400 9/6/07, Ed  Sutton wrote:

>So what do tuning records show? Any response to humidity?


>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>John Delacour
>Here's a simple solution to that little problem :-)

Hard to say.  I've just acquired the piano and it's had no serious 
work done on it since it was new 105 years ago.  I doubt if it has 
been tuned for 20 years and the tuning was not too bad.  I'll find 
out more when I get to re-stringing it, but it's an amazing piece of 
work in every way, embodying all Brinsmead's greatest inventions and 
built with no expense spared.  I've been waiting for years for one of 
these pianos to turn up and am delighted with it.

JD