[pianotech] Music wire conversion table?

[Don Mannino]

That's just great information, John.  I have never seen that type of
marking, but it makes perfect sense.

Were Millimeters in common use in Germany back then?  Somehow I thought they
were something post WW-II, but that's probably just some kind of American
bias.

Don

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of John Delacour
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:50 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Music wire conversion table?

At 08:11 -0700 03/09/2010, Roger Gable wrote:

>...The wire size numbers marked on the bridge start with 7 3/4 in the 
>treble and end at 11 in the tenor.

Tenths of a millimetre -- so you go from mwg 13 (0.775) to 19.5 (1.100)

JD