Tied bass string, will it break?

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

HI Richard:

I've tied many bass strings. The one thing that makes the greatest 
difference as to whether it breaks or not is the way it is pulled up.
On a vertical piano use a tuning hammer position at 2:00 O'clock. This
causes a lowering of tension at the very moment when the pin actually
turns in the pinblock (the pin is crowded down tighter in the cradle of
the pinblock hole as the pin is rotated. It then springs back up, raising
the pitch without the added stress of the bend at the coil). Using an impact
method of hammer techniques which has been explained adequately on this
list lately is very important. If you were working on a grand, you would
likewise use a 10:00 O'Clock position to accomplish the same thing.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Richard Moody wrote:

> 	
> 	I am servicing an Emerson upright from 1890.  In raising to pitch a half step(to
> 438 hoping for 435) , one bass string broke.  The first single going down in the
> bass.  I tied it and have pulled it up to 1/4 step of its intended pitch.  However
> the tuning pin resistance feels like it is ready to snap again. Am I being a
> chicken, or will this string break?  (Core wire  #22+, tire wire, 22) 
> 	How many of you have tied bass strings only to have them break upon pulling them up
> to pitch?
> 	Does anyone know if APSCO 24441 P.78  will fit? 
> 
> 
>  ---ric temerariousnot---
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