At 07:57 -0600 12/2/09, Michael Magness wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>>Ah, there it is. It isn't the wire that has the problem, it's the
>>string maker. Been there.
>>Ron N
Quite so
>I'm going to make an assumption, something I rarely do, especially
>in this forum and guess that you make your bass string loops in what
>I refer to as the "european style". Which is a tight round loop as
>opposed to the typical american style which is a long oval loop.
A loop is a loop and and eye is an eye. What we are talking about is
eyes, not loops.
The eye we make is typically the English eye as shown below, though
we make German eyes and Double German eyes by request and for certain
makes that require them. Our regular eye is 45mm to the start of the
finishing coils but we make all lengths down to 25mm and up to about
55mm.
Compare the evenness and neatness of this with the frightful examples
illustrated in your picture, which look as if they have been made by
a child. Anybody who makes eyes so badly as that has no right to
sell his services as a stringkmaker and I would have no scruples at
all about saying so even if I knew who it was. Not only are they
very ugly but they are all different lengths and most, if not all, of
them are actually pulling round the pin as you apply tension; and the
ugly tags are pointing in all directions.
>The breakage to which I refer occurred on the right side of the loop
>the left as you look at the pic below, past the twist and into the
>loop itself about 7-8mm, in all cases, as I was chipping, using an
>ETD set to and locked on the note in question. This was the 2nd pass
>after roughing to pitch using a used spinet as reference, it had
>been brought in for other work and I tuned it prior to using it for
>that reference. Most broke at the time, some broke overnight.
I'm not surprised! Get yourself a stringmaker who knows how to make
strings, and demand your money back for the whole set.
><http://www.uscconlinealbum.com/pianoman/mobile-uploads/_entry/29ac32d3e409fe58/jsps/media-view#>
>
--
______________________________________________________________________
Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew
Dorset DT11 0HX * England
Phone: +44 1202 731031
Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 * Fax: +44 870 705 3241
______________________________________________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090212/694f276a/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: english_eye.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3439 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090212/694f276a/attachment-0001.jpg>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC