New Bass String - Eye Unwinding.

[Newton Hunt]

an excellent case for rescaling.  Everyone makes mistakes like that.  Of course
I do not ... :)

		Newton

J Patrick Draine wrote:
> 
> On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 03:39 PM, John Ross wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> > I just replaced a set of bass strings, on a 1948 Heintzman, apartment
> > size
> > piano.
> > The customer did not want the bass strings, rescaled.
> > The top six strings had a problem, of the pitch dropping, drastically.
> > It
> > was the eye slipping.
> >
> 
> I don't know anything about the nature of original Heintzman scales, but
> if it might have been restrung in the past, consider this anecdote.
> A customer had an elderly Beckstein grand which had been rebuilt several
> decades ago. I replaced the hammers, and maintained the piano for a
> number of years. A bass string broke while tuning, and I had a
> "duplicate" made by Tuners Supply. This one also went flat very fast,
> and in due course also broke.
> Eventually I brought the x-generation sample to Dave Sanderson, and
> asked him to have his Dad rescale the string. He was reluctant (they
> generally only rescale sets, not singles) but as he was new at string
> making, he agreed to do it.
> Well, the tension necessary to get the string I handed to him up to
> pitch was about 600 inch-lbs!! No wonder they stretched & snapped!
> The recalculated D-1 (#6) string tuned & sounded great!
> 
> Patrick Draine