Missing bass string

[Leslie W Bartlett]

How about using a dowel rod, 1/8 inch or so, marking the hitch to wrap,
and the wrap distance, then finishing up at the top with a tape measure
if necessary?


Leslie Bartlett M.Mus
lesbart@juno.com

On Fri, 04 Apr 1997 07:25:55 -0500 ted@palmnet.net (Ted Simmons) writes:
>I tuned an Acrosonic spinet yesterday that had a bass string missing
>and it
>wasn't stored at the bottom of the piano as is often found..  The
>owner
>wanted a replacement and not a universal installed.  It's an older
>Acrosonic and Baldwin doesn't have the scale for it so they sent what
>they
>thought would work.  It didn't.  Does anyone have an accurate way to
>take
>measurements to order a new string?  I don't want to remove the action
>and
>I can't get a steel roll-up tape measure past the dampers.
>
>Ted Simmons, Merritt Island, FL
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