Brass plated strings??

[Robin Blankenship]

See, there IS gold in dem dar ills.

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Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Brass plated strings??


>          My grandfather in Philly had a Schoemacher upright(20's vintage)
>that is now at my sisters house.It has electro-plated gold strings.One
broke
>in the high treble when I was an apprentice(this was in 1980 when we still
>used that word)..I showed it to my teacher and he said yes indeed it was
>electroplated gold and if I hadn't been overpulling the upper treble too
much
>it probably wouldn't have broken.The bass strings are copper wound.