Cleaning bass strings

[Farrell]

Now wait just a dern-tootin' minute. You're gonner tell me that it is 
better/easier/faster to remove an old bass string, boil it (think about 
it!), and then put it back on the piano (coil-through-agraffe and all), than 
to spend the $5.18 that Schaff wants for a new replacement string and just 
install a new string?

It just don't add up!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
>I have played electric bass for 49 years in all kindsa bands and it  is 
>true, boiling dirty strings can make 'em brighter and get a bit  more life 
>out of them. It works better on round wound electric bass  strings than on 
>flatwound or "ground round", so I would imagine it  would work to some 
>extent on piano strings. It'd be worth a try as an  alternative to 
>restringing , if you could just get them all back on  without busting the 
>beckets on too many of them.
>
> Steve Borgstrom
> Coon Rapids, MN