piano wire

[Carl Meyer]

I don't really have a preference.  I was using wire I got from an estate
many years ago and was tired of it.  Running short on a few sizes, colors
didn't match, and 2 or 3 sizes must have not been annealed properly.
Couldn't make a bass string type loop without it splitting.  I asked on the
list and got very few responses, but someone said he'd changed to Mapes Gold
and was happy with it.  James Arledge told me he thought it was too hard,
but he was using it for making bass strings and thought it would be fine for
plain wire.  Bought it from Mapes direct and with the shipping  and one set
of tuning pins (100lbs)  the cost was about $545 ( that's for 17 five pound
rolls).  I'm about to string my first piano with it.  I have no reference to
evaluate it for sound.  I'd like to know what the difference in sound is,
but that is so subjective I wouldn't know what to believe.  The color match
will be obvious and I will report after I've used it.  Anything else I
notice will be reported as well.

Regards

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: piano wire


> Carl:
>
> Do you prefer Mapes Gold Wire over Roslau (I gather you do)?  What
> differences do you find?  Others care to comment?
>
> David Love
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Meyer" <cmpiano@attbi.com>
> To: "Peter Acronico" <acronico@ix.netcom.com>; "joyce pettipiece"
> <rejoice@volcano.net>; "Antony Hulshoff" <ajdhulshoff@yahoo.com>; "bing
> gibbs" <binggib@pacbell.net>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: December 26, 2001 11:21 AM
> Subject: piano wire
>
>
> > I just bought 17 5 lb rolls of Mapes gold wire.
> >
> > I made dispensers for them that I will show.
> > First picture is 1/8 inch peg board cut as shown to approx 11 inches
> square.
> > I cut 17 of them with a fixture and another 17 including a 3 1/8 hole in
> the
> > middle.
> >
> > Next picture to follow
> >
> > Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
> > Santa Clara, California
> > cmpiano@attbi.com
> >
>