Paul, We do it all the time. Nothing bad has ever happened. I ditto what Susan and Fred said. Jim Busby From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kline Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:49 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Restringing only capo sections On 8/23/2010 10:35 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: Is it advisable to lower tension on the whole piano before removing the old strings from the top two sections? I'm thinking yes so as to not adversely stress the plate. It's had many replaced strings in that area and lots of false beats. The lower sections are fine and clear....so, why mess with it? Why take all the strings off at once? If you just do sections of five or six notes, then remove the wire from the next five or six, the plate won't get stressed. And I find it better to change tasks every once in awhile, instead of having to do the whole of each task at once. Less boring and tiring, swapping back and forth. I wouldn't release any tension on the other sections. And I think that restringing the parts which go bad instead of the whole piano is appropriate, given work loads and budgets these days. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100823/6309126a/attachment.htm>
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