rescaling for copper-wound strings

[paulrevenkojones at aol.com]

 Michael:

Yes, they are aluminum. Kimball and a few other manufacturers (Jansenn comes to mind) experimented with them, none of them successfully. You can either buy Tremaine Parson's scaling program (or use mine), or contact any of the superb technicians out there who do rescaling on a regular basis. You'll need to do some significant measuring to create the data you need to rescale that area of the piano. 

Paul


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Collin <diogeneslamp1 at hotmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 9:44 pm
Subject: rescaling for copper-wound strings













Gurus,

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Kimball consolettes have strings past the bass break that are wound with something other than copper (aluminum?).? These strings always sound dead.? Does replacing those strings with copper-wound strings improve the tone?? If so, is there a way to calculate the specs for the copper-wound strings based on the existing string specs?? (I assume the heavier copper requires different gauge/winding length, etc.)

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Thanks,

Michael Collin

PTG-Illinois North Shore Chapter



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