String Breakage (Reply)

[Ron Nossaman]

Hi Barrie, "stuff" below.

>Hi Ron,
>
>It is built in the price, it is what your clients get use too.   In most
>cases I will just take the string and send it off, (just leave one
>string on and worn the client) I have sent one off yesterday I will get
>it back Fri, Sat at the latest,  Will fit the string at end of the day
>on Monday.  I will mute this one and go back in two weeks. This was not
>a broken string but a dull one, I do intend to give it a try I will try
>anything once and even twice that why I have two kids :-) I can see the
>advantages of splicing and the fact once done leave well alone. 

* Ah, well, there you have it. I wouldn't attempt to splice an unbroken dull
string either. %-) Two kids can certainly leave you at loose ends though.


>You must be aware when it comes to pianos the UK is very traditional in
>its approach to repairs.  Take recentring or repining most tuners
>recentre first and would only use CPL as a short term fix.  Yet: in the
>US most of you look at a liquid fix first and recentreing last.   99% of
>tuners in the UK don't use an ETA.  Must be 75% of this list do, just
>different training and work practise, nothing deviant in that. 

* There's plenty of tradition in the way here too, it's just different. Who
knows, it might all turn out to be deviant in the long run. It's happened
before, you know.



>If some thing is different to what you where shown your first reaction
>is to interrogate, from this you get feed back.  Then you learn if the
>method is good for you and the piano, just don't take it to a personal
>level.   That's how I look at it and it will never upset me, and should
>not upset any one else if done that way.  
>
>Barrie,    

* I'm sorry if I gave the impression I was taking this personally. I'm
really not, nor am I upset. I think I posted that this morning on the way
out the door and it was somewhat terse because I was running late. Then
again, my obvious lack of organization is very possibly the reason why I
don't replace more strings and make touch-up calls. Sigh.

 Ron