Not such a stupid question

[Kenneth W. Burton]

	Anne,

	"A vice grip on the hitch pin!!!" What a gross tool for such a
delicate instrument! Have you ever tried a hemostat?

	Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Anne Beetem wrote:

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> >Hi Anne,
> >    Perhaps sometime you'll elaborate on techniques for getting wire to
> >hold on hole-less tuning pins?  I'll bet I'm not the only one who's
> >agonized over those.
> >-Mike Jorgensen
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> Well, I've had customers actually try duct tape and it doesn't
> work..seriously folks....
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> This is one of those things I've done so many times,  (such as about 120
> times in the last two days) I have to think about how to write it.   To
> summarize, the secret is to start where the pin begins to flatten, wrap at
> a slight angle going upwards about three turns, then wrap downward back
> over the first windings at an angle...makes a pretty pattern too.  You need
> to pull this top section of the windings, which is at the base of the flat
> area of the head (important), nice and snug before proceeding down to
> finish the windings.  Cut off the free end before proceeding very far down
> the cylindrical section.  You have to keep tension on the wire the entire
> time.  I use a third hand (also known as a vice grip) to keep the hitchpin
> loop on the hitchpin as I work.  The tension then keeps the wire holding
> itself on because of the overwinding.  Hope that's clear enough.  Oh yes,
> this is obviously done OUT of the harpsichord, and then you hammer it in
> with your little tuning hammer when the winding catches up to the right
> length to the tuning pin's hole in the wrest plank.  Personally I much
> prefer this technique to drilled pins.
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> Anne Beetem
> Harpsichords & Historic Pianos
> 2070 Bingham Ct.
> Reston, VA  20191
> abeetem@wizard.net
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