Bruce Stevens is an excellent tech, you couldn't do much better than to have him helping you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 11:24 PM Subject: Re: broken string in Ricca piano > I'm not a technician yet, but I'm working on learning to be one (I'm not > necessarily looking at it for a full-time position at this point, > though). Right now, though, I have to concentrate on college. I do know > Bruce Stevens and he has been a help to me sometimes. When I do get around > to working on the piano, I'll probably be restringing, repinning, > rehammering, and recovering the keys at the minimum. > > At 06:52 PM 11/3/00 -0800, you wrote: > >Stephen: > > Are you a technician? You seem to know the right terminology. > > If not, I'd just call some local technician and have him replace the > >string . The supply houses can duplicate it for you. If it is part of > >a pair, duplicate both for better tone match. Universal replacement > >strings are also available, and many technicians have a set of these > >with them. The tone match isn't as good, though. > > I also recommend that the technician be a member of the Piano > >Technician's Guild, and preferably a registered technician of the same. > >They will know best how to take care of the problem. > > Good luck. > > Paul McCloud > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >
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