---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 1/30/2002 11:58:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes: > Subj:Re: Twisting bass strings (physics) > Date:1/30/2002 11:58:41 AM Pacific Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.COM</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > Sent from the Internet > > >>>>>>>>>. Del writes > >> While we're on the subject, I've also wondered if these arbitrary twist >> amounts we so often read about--i.e., one twist, two twists, etc.--are >> supposed to apply equally to Aunt Matilda's Baldwin Acrosonic and to Uncle >> >> Martin's SD-10? >> > >>>>>>> Wim Writes > Seriously, I think it all depends on the piano and the strings. I restrung > a S&S S once, and put one twist in all the strings. Several of them sounded > terrible. So I twisted them again, Still tubby. So I let them go, and just > put them on without a twist, and guesswha'? They sounded great. > > Wim,Del and all fellow twisters-- To twist or not to twist that is > the question? > I think that there is obviously no standard answer. I have come > to think of it as voicing the bass strings by twisting. Hey if they sound > good don't twist and If that doesn't sit right with ya give em 1/2 twist > cause it makes you feeel better. If there a little dull give em one twist > and wait a day or two (be patient) If that doesn't do it twist again and > see/wait a few days. I don't lcare to twist more than three turns ( which I've only done a few times) because in some cases the strings develop false beats> later but > the strings did brighten fortunately. The only time in recent memory where this was done by me was on a Stwy D. > Oddly enough it was all the tri-chord bass that were dull. I followed my own > advice of twist and see. Each time letting them sit for a week. After the > third twist was on the result was immediate and they still sound fine. This > business still has me guessin. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dale Erwin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2f/b8/39/64/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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