Tightening coils on sloppy restringing

[David ilvedson]

Do you also try to have the beckets all in the general same 
area from pin to pin?  That also is a sign of high quality 
stringing.  Just before first chip tuning I go through and "rob 
from Peter to pay Paul" between the two pins where 
necessary.  You may very well have meant the above when 
you wrote  "I try to make the becket come out of the hole 
uniformly". 

David Ilvedson, RPT

From:           	"Brian Trout" <btrout@desupernet.net>
To:             	<pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject:        	Re: Tightening coils on sloppy restringing
Date sent:      	Sun, 2 May 1999 20:35:46 -0400
Send reply to:  	pianotech@ptg.org

> Hi Wim,
> 
> Interesting questions.
> 
> I probably lean more in the opposite extreme.  If some of you saw me
> stringing, you'd probably say something like, "He sure is slow."  And I have
> to admit, I am slow.  But it's becoming an art to me.  It's a challenge to
> see just how -Good- I can make the stringing job, and absolutely not a
> matter of what I can 'get away with'.  The more pianos I restring, the more
> interested I am in seeing just how perfect I can make it.  I try to make the
> coils not only straight and tight, but also I try to make the becket come
> out of the hole uniformly, and I also try to get the same amount of coil
> around each tuning pin, and last but not least, making the pins nice and
> level (at an appropriate level above the plate).  I've never been able to
> make one perfect, but I would be ashamed of some of the work I've seen a few
> others do.
> 
>  I would say I'm probably my own worst critic.  If it isn't perfect, it's
> not good enough for me.  I try not to be too big a fanatic about it, but
> perfection is always my goal.  And hopefully, I move a little closer with
> each job experience.
> 
> Does any of it really matter?  Perhaps to a limited extent, perhaps not at
> all.  To me, most of it is personal pride.  When I'm done with a job, I feel
> a real sense of accomplishment when I look at my own work and compare to
> another well built piano, and my work is either as good as or superior to
> one of the best.  That's my goal.  To do to the best of my ability that
> which is set before me.  I was reading the PTG code of ethics just
> yesterday, and if I remember correctly, that was part of it.  How far each
> of us takes the general principle is an individual thing,... but that's my
> two cents.
> 
> Interesting discussion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Trout
> Quarryville, Pa.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wimblees@AOL.COM <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Tightening coils on sloppy restringing
> 
> 
> >I am not advocating, or defending a sloppy stringing job, but here's
> >something I want to throw out of disucssion.
> >
> >I was told once that the way a string is coiled around a pin has no effect
> on
> >the tuning stability of that string. This does NOT include a loose becket,
> or
> >untight coil. I am talking about wires that cross over each other. Anideas
> on
> >this?
> >
> >The other aspect of this post is the coils against the plate. Again, it is
> >not a good way to do it, but what is the effect of a coil down on a the
> plate?
> >
> >Wim
> >
> 
> 


David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@jps.net