Dear Isaac, You should be able to get some of the products such as wound strings and special lubricants such as Protek from suppliers here in the U.S. by using overseas shipping services such as UPS or FedEx. Your orders will take more time, naturally than they do within the U.S. You may have to pay in advance with a money order drawn on a U.S. bank and/or in U.S. currency. I'm sure that U.S. distributors will be glad to work with you however. Look in your PTG Resource guide and write directly to these distributors in English to ask them what their requirements are. To answer you question about the "inharmonicity cefficient". It is the factor which is considered when rescaling that is a sampled measure of the amount of inharmonicity a given string will have. When I say "sampled" (échantillon en Français) I do so because it is only the measurement between the first and second partial of the string. When tuning, of course, all of the other partials become important. But in rescaling, the amount of inharmonicity between the funamental and the second partial is enough to consider. If the gauge of wire and/or the gauge of winding and/or its legnth is changed, the Inharmonicity Coefficient will change as well. It is not necessary know what the change will be in the higher partials because this change will always be proportinate to that of the lowest partials. Generally speaking, as the tension goes higher, so does the Inharmonicity Coefficient and the percentage of tensile stregnth (the point at which the string will break). I'd like to communicate more with you and Michel La Chance and any other French Speakers in this group in French. There are many French speaking members of PTG as there are Spanish. These two other languages need to have a forum especially to normalize the nomenclature between them. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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