U1 bass strings

[John Delacour]

At 4:55 pm -0400 12/5/02, Newton Hunt wrote:

| A semitone is a bit much for strings that are pushing 60% breaking tension.  I
| would rather tune two extra times than risk breaking a string.

I agree, and the same goes for the high treble on most pianos.  The high singles on many grands with original scaling will exceed 60% and sometimes exceed 70%.  But there is normally little danger except in the top singles, the top bichords and the top octave of plain wire.

JD