restringing

[Richard Moody]

Yes, that reminds me, I went bonkers trying to remove them.  Did I double
loop them when restringing?  I can't remember, but why would I want to
remember going bonkers a second time? My faintly dull memory seems to
recall the use of a nail of the right size, (determined after many trials)
then transfering the double loop to the hitch pin, (which weren't at all
uniform). (Ah--sa'heeb, the straw that broke the camel's back) To make
matters worse the wire to the speaking length has to be on the bottom (or
the hitch pin might break) and it has to be on the RIGHT side of the hitch
pin, which means either the right or the LEFT side depending on the way it
lies in the scale.  You did make a note of that didn't you?. And you do
tie according to the curve of the new wire? And don't forget the sacred
incantation to invoke the graces of the god/goddess of perfection,
Salami...Salami...Balony. 
Richard McBiong-B'oing
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> From: JIMRPT <JIMRPT@aol.com>
> To: lesbart@juno.com; owner-pianotech@ptg.org; pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re:  Re: restringing
> Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 7:10 PM
> 
> Les;
>  In this discussion RE: loops on your loopless strings.  On some of the
older
> european (?) instruments there was a system of double looping around the
hitch
> pin and then tying off as one would tie off a treble tied note. 
>   Perhaps this might be the answer you are looking for as it would make
for
> considerably less stretching/slippage in the tied portion and possibly
make
> your gauging of distance easier.
>   Anyone else out there know what I am talking about.....or have I gone
> bonkers? :-)
> Jim Bryant (FL)
> "ignorance is bliss and my life is full of it"
> Faintly Dull