New bass strings, some dead

[Shawn Brock]

Mike:
this is interesting.  I had a round of bad bass strings lately as well. 
Ordered a set for a Milton vertical and a set for a Baldwin m.  Both new 
sets had bad strings at the top of the bass and a couple bad ones at the 
beginning of the singles.  I wonder if we are using the same stringmaker? 
Never had this problem before.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spalding" <mike.spalding1 at verizon.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: New bass strings, some dead


>I am restringing a 30 year old S&S L for the local university.  Just 
>installed the bass strings today, and 5 of the 42 have a noticeably 
>duller/deader tone than the rest of the set.  The dead strings are not 
>contiguous - there are bright lively strings in between the dead ones.  In 
>fact, 4 of them are one string of a bichord, where the other string is 
>good.  We're listening to plucked strings, since I don't have the action. 
>The whole piano is chipped more or less to pitch.
>
> Original bridge cap surface planed smooth, bridge renotched, new bridge 
> pins set in epoxy.  Original agraffes reamed with pianotek reamer.
>
> Is this for sure a case of defective strings, or are there some things I 
> should check before contacting the stringmaker?
>
> thanks
>
> Mike
>