was Chc re-scl qtr grd trchd-now- GOLD plated wire.

[Ron Nossaman]

> Gold Plated, could be. My wife's mutt will recover, Ron, so no worries. 

That's a relief. Meanwhile, search "gold plated" in the archives.


> I'll send some out, just an inch or two though, it GOLD for cryin' out 
> loud.

No fair scraping it off first. <G>
I bet the stuff looks really impressive in a piano. So far, 
the only gold strings I've seen are those where someone has 
sprayed a plate, strings, tuning pins, damper heads, and parts 
of the soundboard. But I don't think that counts.


> So, a wire of a specific material, stretched to a given pitch, will be 
> at a specific breaking point % regardless of it's diameter. Is this 
> correctly stated? I never stop learning.
> Fenton

Not quite. Music wire of a given *speaking length* at a given 
pitch will be of similar break% regardless of it's diameter. 
Changing the speaking length or pitch will change the break%, 
but just changing wire size won't (though it will change tension).
Ron N