[CAUT] Wire gauge question

[Zeno Wood]

Thanks, that explains a lot.  Except WHY are the two systems a half
size off from each other, EXCEPT for sizes under 8 and sizes over 23?
What gives?

Thanks again,
Zene Wood


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Alan McCoy <amccoy at mail.ewu.edu> wrote:
> Here's a chart from Jurgen's web site.
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> http://www.pianofortesupply.com/wiresizes.html
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>> From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:14:02 -0500
>> To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org>
>> Subject: [CAUT] Wire gauge question
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>> Ok, what's going on here?  Would a Yamaha CFIII be using a different
>> system of wire gauge?  It says 14 or 14.5 on the bridge, but it
>> measures more like .032" which is 13.5 - is this metric?  If so, whose
>> idea was it to make metric and "normal" so close to each other?
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>> Thanks,
>> scratchin' my head...
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