Cleaning bass strings

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Myself, double bass 5 string, elect. 6 string, tuba, 5 valve, very bass
indeedy.
Include Joe Garrett as well
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <reggaepass@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Cleaning bass strings


> OK.  So what percentage of piano technicians are now or ever have been
> bass players, like Gerry, Geoff, myself, and several others I can think
> of just off hand?  What is it about bass playing piano technicians?
>
> Alan Eder, RPT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Sykes <thetuner@ivories52.com>
> To: 'Pianotech' <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:14:04 -0800
> Subject: RE: Cleaning bass strings
>
>     Weird is not the word. Although I too was once a bass player. But
> now I'm a
> piano tech, so I guess I'm used to weird. But I digress... I had a
> electric
> bass player in the studio once a number of years ago, high profile
> session
> player just out from New York, who insisted on replacing his strings
> before
> EVERY TAKE. He said he really liked that bright new sound, so after
> every
> take he would pull out a pair of dikes, cut off the "old" ones, (didn't
> want
> anyone pulling them out of the trash and actually using them again in
> his
> name as a souvenir), and then put an a set of brand new ones.
>
> -- Geoff Sykes
> -- Assoc. Los Angeles
>
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Gerald Forsburg
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:25 AM
> To: 'Pianotech'
> Subject: RE: Cleaning bass strings
>
>
> LOL!!!  I was a bass player for years.  Never heard of this, but it
> doesn't
> surprise me.  We bass players are a weird bunch.  The only musicians
> that
> are weirder are the drummers.  Beware, some bass player probably told
> you he
> boiled his strings on a bet with a drummer to see if you'd actually do
> it -
> pianists are generally found to be pretty gullible. <G> ;-)
>
> Gerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
> Behalf
> Of John Dorr
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:48 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Cleaning bass strings
>
> Hi all,
>
> I read somewhere about electric bass players who boil their strings when
> they
> get too grimy and they want to brighten up their tone.  I wondered if
> anyone
>
> had ever tried that on piano bass (wound) strings?  I've also wondered
> from
> time to time if it would be possible to clean bass strings with
> ultra-sound.
>
>  Anybody know?
>
> I am aware of the technique of running an overhand loop up and down a
> tubby-sounding string, and of giving the string a twist.  I'd love to
> hear
> anybody else's tips on restoring at least some of the tone to old
> strings.
>  Not all my customers can afford a re-stringing job.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>
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