[CAUT] Storing spare bass strings

[Andrew Anderson]

I'm in contract discussions with a school here and one of the side 
discussions is having a spare-parts inventory.

Seeing as this piano is the best maintained here and is depended on 
by the arts community, we are interested in keeping spare parts in 
anticipation of a possible broken part shortly before an event.  We 
had one string break retrievably so, but can't expect that always.

Particularly we want to have a spare for each of the wound strings on 
an S&S D (particularly mono and bi chords).  It is my understanding 
that wound strings are wound under tension and that if they aren't 
shortly returned to and kept under some tension will degrade to some 
extent.  We are considering a dry cabinet (DC rod in it) to hang the 
strings in by their hitch pin loops with some sort of weight and 
clamp assembly to hang on each of them.

I'm guessing that some other CAUT-heads have already invented this 
wheel.  We would sure like to crib off of any working system you 
have.  As to that, any observations regarding how much weight is 
adequate and the overall real-world need for this would be appreciated.

Also, any observations about what spare parts you would not be 
without if you had a choice would be appreciated.

Andrew Anderson
serving LCC & TAMIU