Unbelieveable String

[Richard Strang]

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MessageTotally dead strings are not that unusual, at least not down here.
Replace it.

Richard Strang
  -----Original Message-----
  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Joe And Penny Goss
  Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:07 PM
  To: Pianotech
  Subject: Re: Unbelieveable String


  Alan, Effectivly you have two strings each trying to ring but muting each
other out resulting in no sound.
  Joe Goss
  imatunr@srvinet.com
  www.mothergoosetools.com
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Alan
    To: Pianotech
    Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:47 PM
    Subject: Unbelieveable String


    New client, small rural church. Late 40's Hallet, Davis conet/spinsole.
Someone had already done an elbowectomy and the flanges were all wood, thank
goodness. Not tuned in 4-5 years. Why now? Oh, they have a professional
player coming in for a concert.

    Oh, boy.

    With a little extra work and a Tunelab pitch raise, this piano sounds
surprisingly not-so-bad. Surprisingly clean, too, with no wild strings until
about G6! 22 single bass strings and the tenor break was at G3 with two
wound bichords for G#3 and A3 on the tenor bridge, but it really isn't too
bad and is even fairly smooth in the bridge transition. In fact, it sounds
better than a lot of late model Baldwins and Hamiltons I've tuned in similar
environments!

    Anyway, heres the mystery: Bass bichord at B2. One of the strings is
completely, totally, absolutely dead. Not a thuddy-duddy, not tubby, not
muffled--just completely, flat-line dead. It makes no sound except the
mechanical thump (as opposed to the vegetarian thump) of the hammer. The
string might as well be made of lead. Absolutely weird. It is NOT touching a
damper or any other object. I have no idea where it is with regard to pitch
so I just pulled it up to physically feel about as tight as its unison-mate.
When the note is struck, it just sounds like one string being struck; there
is no out-of-tune sound or "mute bleed through" thud or anything--as though
it were heavily and firmly muted with a rag stuffed in for good measure.

    I examined the string from end to end and did find one anomoly: About a
third of the way from hitch to pin, there is a place where about 1/2" of the
winding is missing--just core wire showing. Okay, that might really screw up
the harmonics of the thing but shouldn't it make SOME sort of noise?

    Totally weird.

    Alan R. Barnard
    Salem, MO



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