[pianotech] interesting request

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/23/2012 6:23 AM, Mike Kurta wrote:
>      I also had a request for piano wire.  This person was setting up a
> conveyer and needed an straight line in space to do it.
>      Mike Kurta

Yep. I've sold something like a dozen one pound rolls to the various 
aircraft plants and machine shops through the years. I had gotten an 
order of replacement wire years back that had a big rusty hand print on 
each one, which I discovered months later when I opened one to use it. 
That's when I switched to Mapes IG wire from Pianotek, and never again 
had a problem. Better wire too. The people buying whole rolls for 
machine setup and alignment and removing LOTS of windshields don't seem 
to mind rusty hand prints on the coils, so they all eventually were sold.

I was cornered in a music store long ago by someone wanting wire to use 
in a weed whacker. He figured it would last forever and he'd never have 
to change it again. I had exactly what he wanted in the truck, but 
declined to help him cripple himself by selling him any. I don't know if 
he survived the week, or bled out somewhere on the south 40 looking for 
that last toe but either way, I'm non complicit.
Ron N