smaller or larger?

kam544@earthlink.net kam544@earthlink.net
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:19:57 -0600


>...but this particular size fell right in between what I had
>with me. So in a case like this, where you don't have the exact size
>Universal to replace a bass string with, should you go with the thicker
>density or the thinner?
>
>I replaced it with the thinner.
>
>Rook

I would chose the thinner wrapped replacement in the same situation as
well, believing it would be able to handle the higher pitch.  Might be
faulty reasoning on my part, but right now it feels right.

Keith McGavern
kam544@earthlink.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA
http://www.ptg.org/1999/conv/
PTG Convention, Kansas City, July




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