Stainless Steel Music Wires
Music is sweetness turned to sound. It can be both lithe and heavy, nostalgic yet new, gentle or bold, but it must always strike the right key, the right chord, to be beautiful. Because of this music wire must be crafted to a tolerance that few manufacturers can approach, yet alone achieve. At Stanley Spring and Stamping we pride ourselves on being able to produce steel music wire that is made within the precise dimensions needed to, when struck, produce a perfect pitch.
We also know that steel music wire isn’t just used in pianos, guitars, and other stringed instruments, though the high quality such pieces require does dictate the standards with which we create our products. Because they are routinely plucked, stretched, bent, and subjected to routine exposure to human skin as well as metal hammers or picks, music wires must have an inherent tensile strength and durability that makes them useful in a wide variety of applications. These include, but are not limited to, uses as control wires for a multitude of machines and vehicles. Even things as small as some model airplanes rely on such tempered, high-tensile steel wires to fly straight and level.
It is, however, its role within the orchestra that requires music wire to be produced with such high standards, as even minor variations in width or flaws left over from manufacturing can distort the sound an instrument makes. Whether such an instrument, be it a piano or guitar, is owned by a master performer who is set to take center stage before thousands or a child learning his or her first notes while sitting on grandma or grandpa’s lap, the melody it is set to sing will only be as memorable, and lovely, as the quality of steel with which it is strung. Professionals involved in the repair and maintenance of such fine musical pieces want those, and every other moment their clients experience, to live up to the potential that has been crafted into each piece. We understand the desire to bring the best out of any musical instrument and so take pride in supplying those involved in their repair with steel springs that always reverberate with a sweetness to their sound.
