Cleaning bass strings

[Stéphane Collin]

Hi all.

So nice to hear that so many of you are involved with other instruments than 
pianos.
I just thought of one thing : there is a difference between a bass string 
and a piano string.  In my world, a bass string is just perfect when you put 
it out of the box right on the bass : it sounds nice and rich, full of 
harmonics.  In the case of a piano bass string, it definately needs some 
days (or weeks, or month) and some tunings, some stretching and easing to 
come to it's full sound.  A contrario, a bass guitar strings starts sounding 
less good from day one, maybe because of the animal grease unavoidable in 
the fingers of the players, but I suspect another cause.  I know more than 
one bass player who, if they can afford it, would replace the string set 
before each gig they do.  Not true with piano bass strings, which tend to 
get better for decades, before going down to dull.

Best regards.

Stéphane Collin





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: RE: Cleaning bass strings


> At 09:57 AM 12/7/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>>I played bass for two years, in high school jazz band.
>>John Delmore
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>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
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> Voice - bass
> Handbells - lowest (nobody else wants to try to lift them...)
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> Does playing bass drum in high school band count?
> How about 2nd/4th horn in high school orch?
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> Conrad Hoffsommer
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