different focus was Re: Bass strings/Willem's response

[Farrell]

I feel this is often the point when restringing the plain-wire sections on a piano. You may not be doing it to just be putting new wire on the piano, but rather to be fixing/rebuilding the termination point both at the capo/agraffe and the bridge!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac OLEG SIMANOT" <oleg-i@wanadoo.fr>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: different focus was Re: Bass strings/Willem's response


> Hello,
> 
> I don't agree totally on this one. replacing worn and stiff old white
> (plain) strings always change the sound , thanks for the time involved doing
> that. That it does not change the sound enough with this option only is
> another matter.
> 
> Shaping the capo d'astro (and not Tastro in our latitudes) is second to the
> good sound in treble regions, as the bridge pins well seated, the
> terminations, of course the voicing, that play a very large part of course
> in the sound quality.
> 
> Isaac OLEG
> 
> Somehow that got to be interpreted that I wouldn't replace strings even
> though they loose elasticity, plastic, become corroded, rusted, get
> fatigued, etc.
> 
>  >> But I don't think replacing them will change the tone of the piano.
> There are other factors that will change the tone, but not the new strings
> themselves.  <<
> 
>  Anyway if it is a very old 100 years vertical, why bother and change even
> the basses then ?
> 
> 
>