Fred, Yes, I do the slight loop bend on the short wire loop...it makes it easier to slide the long wire through and futz with it if you need to. I find that it is a little easier to make the tail on the long wire a little longer because it gives you a little more leverage when getting it to go into place. A great way to practice this is to take about 30" of wire (#14 ½ - just so you can get used to it). If it comes off of a 1 pound coil like mine does it will want to form a circle. With the cut ends of the circle to your right just make believe like the part of the wire coming up from the bottom is the "short" wire and the other cut end will mimic the "long" wire. Proceed as per the earlier instructions and you have spliced the circle together. Eric Wolfley, RPT Head Piano Technician Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:52 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAUT String Repair Class....was unusual repair Cool! Makes plenty of sense, and seems like it would be pretty efficient. One trick being to keep that tail on the long section short, so it is easy to "spring" and slip around the other wire. And you probably wouldn't make that second loop quite as tight, for the same reason. Do you do the "bend over the tail" thing, giving the loop a bit of the angle it is going to need, or does that make it too hard to spring it around the other wire? Or maybe it would be easier. In my mind's eye it would be, now that I think about it. I'll experiment and see. (Here's where a picture would definitely be worth a lot more than a bundle of confused words, but maybe you can interpret what I am getting at). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Wolfley, Eric ((wolfleel)) wrote: Fred, I'm sorry, I meant to mention that I don't remove the short wire from the pin at all. I make my first loop clockwise on the short wire with the tail passing beneath the string, feed the long wire through the loop from the top so it traps the tail, pull it through 2-3 inches and make the second loop clockwise as well but with the tail passing over the top of the string. (They are both clockwise because the strings are coming from opposite directions). I then can spring the wire a little bit and slip the second loop into place around the short wire while the loops are still 2-3 inches apart. This all easier to show than to describe. Eric Head Piano Technician UniversityHeadUniversity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070228/ec9148da/attachment-0001.html
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