Difficult string replacement

[Richard Moody]

You are both lucky and unlucky. Unlucky because many of us with over
20 years have never had that string break.  Lucky because the wire
went between two notes.  That means there are still two strings on
each note.  Take the broken wire out and don't worry. No one can tell
which note  has two strings or three strings.  If you replace the
string it will be so out of tune ( music festival next day) you will
have to place a felt mute to dampen it.  Unlucky if there is a tri
chord damper on that note and the two strings then does not let the
damper work right.
	Sometimes instead of a coil lifter, you need to use a stringing
hook, which is a pain in the a$$ to level coils with. But it does get
in where nothing else can. Then with the t pin  that close to the,
its called a pressure bar, not a capo bar, its a b!tch to get the
wire thru the hole w/o a 35 $ Snap On curved nose plier. But they are
good for getting level coils also.  Lucky if you surmized that
unscrewing the pressure bar at full tension might get you smacked in
the face, or worse as far as the piano is concerned.
BTW Was that string that broke hard to tune?
R Moody

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> From: Arlie D. Rauch <adarpub@inetco.net>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Difficult string replacement
> Date: Sunday, April 20, 1997 10:23 AM
>
> I was tuning the 12th and last piano late in the evening for a high
school
> music festival the next day.  The last time through, a string broke
> (G35-G#36, I think, with 20 gauge wire).  This was on a Hamilton
studio
> #169090.
>
> The tuning pins on this piano are very close together in this area,
and
> that created some difficulty.  I could hardly use a string lifter
because
> of the close quarters.  I take pride in my coils, and this did not
turn out
> to be the best.  The stiff wire adds to the difficulty.
>
> If I had removed the capo bar, installation of the string would
have been
> somewhat easier.  Do any of you recommend that?  If I had done
that, what
> would have happened to the overall pitch of the piano?
>
> I am thinking through this so I can do it better next time.
>
> Arlie D. Rauch
> Glendive, MT
>
>