That's good, Ed. What if a piano is just a false beat mess!? I don't know if I can actually fix this thing without a restring and new bridge pin repair throughout. see how you all are :>) I'm talking myself right into it! I'm all in favor of trying the upper capo restringing thing on some other pianos after this one! :>) This piano is what y'all would describe as the "nasty". 1966 M with nothing done to it since it arrived save perhaps some new hammers in the past. BTY; What hammers had the dark purple underfelt? They're really waaaay round with no good shape at all. That, I'm sure is part of the problem, but WNG just called me and offered a free set of shanks and flanges!!! SO..I'm tempted, of course. So since replacing them, a new set of hammers, too! Shall I???? Paul From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 08/03/2010 02:44 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] When to restring... >>When do you all decide when to restring a grand? When it appears that I am restringing it one string at a time due to breakage. Other than that, in the school, I often restring the top section, from capo bar to the top. Steinways often have dents in the bridge cap that extend beyond the pins, so it is not uncommon to pull the pins, (the breaks can be a problem), renotch to the center of the pin hole, and then redrill and install new pins. Rendering problems in the felt areas are easily removed by using Pro-tek on the felt. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100803/62a7299e/attachment.htm>
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