At 01:16 PM 8/14/96 -0500, you wrote: >How 'bout some more stringing stories folks....? > >John McKone, RPT >Minneapolis, MN >http://www.skypoint.com/members/mckonejw You probably don't want to hear about how I dropped a 1 lb coil of wire that wasn't secured tightly and I ended up with an enormous mess of wire all over the shop floor! It only took me several hours to get it all untangled and back into a coil again! There is a wonderful tuner in my town (not in the PTG) who strings using a 6/6 scale. He starts at size 13 in the top treble and then changes wire sizes to the next half size every 6 unisons. He doesn't use a micrometer at all, and unstrings pianos without taking any measurements. He does very nice coils and wire spacing etc., very nice visual effect. I did notice difficulty in tuning those pianos, but I thought it was just me, because of inexperience. Thanks for the stories! David A. Vanderhoofven dkvander@clandjop.com Joplin, Missouri, USA Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild web page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ *****P.S.***** The web page is finally up again!
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