[pianotech] Music wire conversion table?

[PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com]

I totally concur. I love learning something new! I just love it!
 
P
 
 
In a message dated 9/3/2010 3:26:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
donmannino at ca.rr.com writes:

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

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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



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