Replacement Bass String won't hold tune

[John Ross]

I wonder how tight the pin is?
If I run into one of these with a previously replaced string, I raise it above pitch then I tune the piano. Last thing I do is tune that string.
I haven't noticed that universal strings, stretched any more than normal replaced strings.
Although, I suppose that would depend, on how close the match was.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paul bruesch 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:12 PM
  Subject: Replacement Bass String won't hold tune


  I scheduled a tuning on a piano that's "not too old, but not new, either."  Customer says that a few tunings back (I'm hearing at least five years ago) a bass string broke... oops, she said "one of the lower strings on the left" broke... during tuning. Tuner replaced it, but "you know how new strings are... they keep stretching" and it doesn't hold a tune. Now, I'm thinking that perhaps it was replaced with a universal string and maybe it's the <tone>, not the <tune> that gets her attention. Do (universal ) bass strings continue to stretch considerably more than plain-wire treble strings?? 

  Thanks,
  Paul Bruesch
  Stillwater, MN
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