Last Hurrah?/ broken strings

[John Ross]

Hi Newton,

----- Original Message -----
From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@optonline.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Last Hurrah?/ broken strings


> This guy must be a sailor with that name.
>
> I think tiny little knots are elegant.  If the knot is in the
speaking
> length and it is done well and the string is twisted I have
been
> unable to hear the difference in tone between the spliced and
the
> unspliced string.  Even on smaller pianos.  I can measure it
but the
> difference is insignificant.
>
> Splice that mainstay!

Would that be, "splice the mainbrace", a naval term, for an extra
tot of rum?
I never did learn how to put that little <snip> in there.

Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca


>
> Newton
>
> Yardarm103669107@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > Hey Joe:
> > Every one but two were in the speaking length since most
broke at the
> > agraffe. This didn't do much for tone quality, but in that
venue, it didn't
> > make a lot of difference. The other two broke just above the
agraffe and gave
> > me just enough slack to make a knot between the pin and
agraffe. Not elegant
> > overall, but it did the trick.
> > Cheers. Paul
>