Fred, Yes, it is a becketless system, but the wire under the top coils are not interfering with the bottom coils where it's breaking. Just a thought, but perhaps the pins on the nut are a little rusty and are not allowing the wire to render? But there again, I would think that the wire would then break at the pin, or am I not thinking in the right direction? Paul From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 01/05/2011 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] scaling a Tyre harpsichord? On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: They are breaking from top to bottom in no particular place. Mostly 8's. The strings break at the pin...always; just where the wire leaves the pin. Assuming this instrument has becketless pins, the most likely cause is that the coiled wire is crossing the bit of wire that is under the coils, running along the length of the pin (holding the wire onto the pin by friction), and that this crossing is taking place on the side where the string leaves the pin. That creates a sharp bend in the wire at that point when you are tuning. To remedy, when replacing strings, always make sure the bottom coils don't cross that wire, by cutting the bottom bit of it, bending it out of the way, not making it too long in the first place, something along those lines. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110105/2445add3/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DSC01497.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 21017 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110105/2445add3/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DSC01498.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 21227 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110105/2445add3/attachment-0003.jpg>
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