wire curve

[Lonnie Young]

At 9:40pm 3/3/99 Lonnie Young wrote:

When I worked at Baldwin we strung pianos from strings that were pre-cut 
for every position.  The strings came bundled up straight in a box, and 
labeled as to which scale and string number counting (if I remember 
correctly) from the shortest string to the longest. One duty for me 
included measuring the strings and fixing the problem if they got mixed up 
and were not fitting the pianos correctly.  At the stringing stations there 
were tubes for each length string needed for each scale piano that we 
produced.

Lonnie Young
Former Wurlitzer Tech Service
Now at The University of Southern Mississippi
Lonnie.young@usm.edu


-----Original Message-----
From:	loupgaru [SMTP:loupgaru@acadiacom.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 1999 2:14 PM
To:	pianotech@ptg.org
Subject:	Re: wire curve

All the Violin strings I have ever received have been coiled into little 
paper pouches.  I order mine directly. Perhaps the music stores get them in 
large quanities and uncoil them.
Randy Hayno
John Musselwhite wrote:
>
> At 12:08 PM 3/2/99 -0600, Keith wrote:
>
> >>...Has any piano company ever strung a piano where the strings have
> >>never been coiled...
> >>-Mike
> >
> >There was a guitar company that did this years back.  Marketed strings,
> >which had never been coiled, in plastic containers.  It seemed a great
>
> They were called "Nashville Straights" if I recall.
>
> >concept.  It didn't last.  I couldn't discern a difference from their
> >wrapped coiled strings of similar type and dimensions.
>
> I couldn't either... and they were too expensive.
>
> Violin strings always seem to be shipped straight though. I remember in 
the
> music store we always had tubes filled with them. Would any violin 
players
> like to comment on why?
>
>                 John
>
> John Musselwhite, RPT -  Calgary, Alberta Canada
> Registered Piano Technician   http://www.musselwhite.com
> email: john@musselwhite.com