| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Strings Go Stale????? | | Date: | Friday, March 16, 2007 02:00:01 (-0400) | | From: | Peter Nyce <pnyce @........com>
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Let's think about this string issue logically. A piano (essentially
stringed instrument with a hammer instead of a pick to actuate the sound of
a string) needs tuning frequently to keep it in perfect pitch. Have you
ever heard anyone suggest that a functioning (used daily) piano needs all
the strings changed? My Mom was a professional pianist and we had a hundred
year old Steinway in our house for fifty years, it was always kept in
perfect pitch, and we never had all the strings changed. For all I know,
they may have been the original 100 year old strings.
I put a set of Gibson 248's on my Hound Dog in the early 80's, they're
still on it, and you should hear the sound I get out of it. Perhaps its
because they're "Mono-Steel", I don't know, and I don't know what materials
they use today for strings, but I've got plenty of spares so it doesn't
really matter. I've also never heard of strings going bad on the shelf like
car batteries!
The beautiful sound of a Dobro is really due to the type of wood used, the
construction of the sound chamber, the cone (I much prefer spun over
stamped), and the age of the instrument. The older, the better. Josh's
"Julie", which he played for most of his career, was built in 1928. Mine's
only 37 years old, but it sounds better and better all the time. :-)
I'll ask my buddy Dick Blattenberger about this string discussion. He's 75
years old, still plays, and is arguably knows more about Dobro's and Dobro
pickers than any person alive.
Pete in PA
At 12:44 AM 3/16/2007, you wrote:
>Guess I lack the experience to hear, or feel or know, about loss of string
>tensile due to aging.
>
>Now, given they ARE wound under pressure, or the unwound one's and the
>core's of the
>wound one's ARE made under pressure . . . . . .there's no doubt they'd
>unwind some over
>time.
>
>But till I see study's and hear some science, this is killin me . . .
>
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