SV: iron wound strings

[Avery]

And your point is? :-D

Avery

At 02:01 AM 4/21/2007, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tune a small (recent production) Everett that has two aluminium wound
>strings on the treble bridge, and copper in the bass.
>
>At 10:31 AM 4/21/2007 +0200, you wrote:
> >William,
> >There were even manufacturers who blended iron and cupper wound strings. It
> >can be seen in old pianos where they have put in iron wound strings before
> >the tenor breake. This was not done because the cupper was expensive or so
> >but simply because of tone quality benefits.
> >Iron wound strings are not bad at all - they have another sound and some
> >people like it and some dont.
> >Aras
>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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>
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