Anytime, I have heard of anything being added to bass strings, it ended up to their detriment. I for one will not be adding anything to bass strings. I seem also to remember someone put some centre pins in one of the 'magic' elixirs, and it turned green. Mind you it was over a period of time. So once again, not for me. It would be ok, to experiment on your own piano, but definitely not on a customers. John Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:03 PM Subject: [CAUT] Protek against string falseness > Hi Ted > > Yes. After so many years in the biz one gets to know a wild bass string > that isnt going to respond to removal, twisting, cleaning what not with > reasonable assuredness. Tho that said... I had done a bit of that on some > of the strings I've applied Protek on without that having any real affect. > > Sometimes you can add a twist and it might help a bit... true enough. But > this seems to directly affect the para inharmonicity of a bass string. > What else it does is what I am looking for input on. As well as what > effect protek has on bridge wood at the bridge pin. > > Cheers > RicB > > Hi Ric, > > I sounds like you are not livening the bass strings first, is that > right? You are not removing an end and running a loose granny knot > back and forth to clean and "liven" the string? You are just adding > the Protek to the string in its existing condition? > > Thanks. > > Ted > > Ted Kidwell, RPT > > > John M.Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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