Difficult string replacement

[DICK BEATON]

Here is a good way to get the wire in the hole when it is close to the
pressure bar...turn the pin so the hole is horizontal.....then with pliars
bend it to make the becket and shove it in from the left side....

Dick Montana RPT

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> From: Richard Moody <remoody@easnetsd.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Difficult string replacement
> Date: Sunday, April 20, 1997 10:11 PM
>
> 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
> >
> >