This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Susan and List. Gregor phoned me from Germany simply to ask = whether I had put his strings on yet - and that '8mm stretching' = business was his reason for phoning. He said (inter alia) one of his = clients had kept a set of strings for two years and then phoned with a = complaint of loss of tone. So I'm hurrying things along. I have only = today to complete the restringing and am down to 39 notes left (A3) = They're all slack as yet, of course! S&S have this large gap in their = stringing table - it goes in half-steps to guage 16 1/2 then suddenly = there's a whole load of guage 17. Any reason, anyone, why I shouldn't = insert a guage 17 1/2 in there at note 39 and continue to the = specified change to 18 at note 35? >From a pelting down cool Sussex Downs. Glad to be going to Verona = tomorrow! Michael G.(UK)=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Susan Kline=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:49 PM Subject: re: Restringing the Middle section of Michael G's S&S 'A' At 07:00 PM 8/4/2005 +0100, you wrote: My string maker, Gregor Heller, advises me to "get those bass = strings on pdq. In manufactur they are under tension and increase their = lenght by 8mm. Left un tensioned for any length of time results in poor = tonal quality. Does anyone else corroborate this? In school, I put a set of bass = strings on Ted Sambell's Pleyel grand. Ted had wound the strings a = number of years earlier, preparing for the rebuild he hadn't had time to = get into. They sounded just fine.=20 Susan ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bb/98/75/79/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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