>Bobby of Tuscumbia, AL posted: >I had a situation this week involving a Whitney spinet. The lady said when >she called that "it looks rusty back in there." When I got there, she said >she paid $5K for the spinet, "new," in the early 80's... Sorry to hear about that price...ouch. >...THE POINT: To cap the stack, one of the new-looking bass strings was >brought around the left side of the pin to the lower-left of the string, and >on up across to its pin. MY QUESTION as one new to "teching": Is this type >of stringing some arcane solution to a problem? I've never heard of such >before, although I have seen sloppy, hacky work. I've never heard of what you're describing as a standard technique myself. Sometimes a string will be borrowed from a neighbor and rerouted as a temporary fix when broken strings are encountered and no replacements are available. Keith McGavern, RPT kam544@ionet.net Oklahoma Baptist University Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
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