Warren is right - see below. (Boy, what some people remember!!) Let me add two things to our reasoning about our coil count and becket position. Picture, as an example, stringing a grand and looking down at the tuning pin area. If the becket is at 9 o'clock, you use your favorite tool at the 3 o'clock position to raise the coils, then go about setting the coils so 1/2 of the hole shows at that 3 o'clock position. If the becket is at 3 o'clock, in my experience, I have to raise the coils there (that's where the wire joins the tuning pin) AND move the tool over to the 9 o'clock postion and raise the coils there also. That's twice as much coil raising, twice as much work and twice as much time. I was surprised by one person in the class that took this really personally, saw me afterward and said that he always put the becket at 3 o'clock and did spectacular stringing work and why was I questioning his personal procedure. You know, that's OK, too. You do it any way you want. You listen to how I do it, I'll listen to how you do it and now we each have two ideas (and combinations thereof) to do something. The 2 1/2 turns of the wire around the tuning pin have proven to be sufficient for our work. We were concerned that theoretically there would not be enough wire wrapped around the tuning pin, but we do NOT have any trouble with tuning stability. And the tuning pin sits just a little lower in the pinblock to offset that "flagpoling" effect. ----Joel Warren Fisher wrote: > > Jon Page wrote: > > > I still have three > > coils with the becket about 3:00. > > Jon Page > > Jon, > > Most technicians in this business have different philosophies about a > lot of things. This is one of mine. After attending a seminar given by > the Rappaports (of Texas) several years back at which they said that the > three coils and the 3:00 position are not written in stone! That > anything from 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 turns are equally good. That they > regularly used the 2-1/2 turns leaving the becket at 9:00 which alowed > them better control of the wire leading into the coil, particularly in > the bass of those uprights like Everetts where the high v-bar causes the > wire to descend a half inch to the tuning pin and most of the time rides > up over the coil. (When you are talking about the 3:00 position, I > assume that you are talking about the stringing position, upright on a > tilter and grand in its' normal position). To correct the string > ride-over above, back off the pin 1/4 turn, put a coil lifter under the > coil where the wire intersects the pin, lift the coil slightly higher > and re-tighten. With the becket on the far side you can do this, but it > is impossible if the becket is anywhere near to the point the string > wraps around the pin. We may be both saying the same thing from > different viewpoints. Please let me know. > > Warren > > -- > Warren D. Fisher > fish@communique.net > Registered Piano Technician > Piano Technicians Guild > New Orleans Chapter 701
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