[CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1088, Issue 38

[Willem Blees]

Quoting Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>:

> Hi List,
> 
> I am fairly new as a CAUT (o.k. I'm greener than green!)  I have a 
> questionfor you:  In my private practice days, I would install bass 
> strings as soon as I received them.  Now, a dear patron of our music
> dept 
> has donated a potentially beautiful Steinway L (cir 1932), and when 
> de-stringing I discovered it desperately needs a new pinblock.  I had
> 
> already received the parts and bass strings needed for the
> restoration. 
> Since my shop is not equipped for "open heart surgery" like pinblock
> 
> installation, I will be having a rebuilder off campus complete this 
> proceedure and I will do the rest.  The question: Do I leave the bass
> 
> strings coiled up in the box, or should I let them hang straight with
> the 
> wrapping left on them?  It may be a couple of months until the first
> stage 
> is completed.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> Paul T. Williams RPT
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu

Paul

I would hang them up.

Wim
Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
School of Music
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL USA