String Info Please

[David Ilvedson]

I should have said I didn't let them know I measured the string without tension.    
Would that explain the winding being a little short at the top?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 3/19/2008 3:45:46 PM
Subject: RE: String Info Please


>At 13:09 -0700 19/3/08, David Ilvedson wrote:

>>The strings I've had problems with the winding be to short were not 
>>under tension.   They were the broken ones...

>Well precisely!  Re-read my message and you'll see one reason that 
>might be, presuming the stringmaker didn't simply make a mistake.

>Most of my customers send me the original broken string, in which 
>case there is no doubt.  If they send or phone dimensions, I need to 
>know whether they measured the length of copper as is would be under 
>tension (eg. like the remaining one of a bichord) or whether they 
>measured it on the bench.

>JD