Cleaning bass strings

[Avery Todd]

Hmmm. Just wondering. Did you ever boil your bass strings????? :-D

Avery

At 09:21 AM 12/7/05, you wrote:
>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
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>----- 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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