stringing

[Farrell]

Get an air hammer! Eliminate "wallering"!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: stringing


> It seems that driving the pins first would make it
> difficult to make neat coils. On the other hand, it
> would prevent "wallering out" the upper end of the
> holes (as they say here in the South) by driving a pin
> with a little wire tension pulling on it.
> --- Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net> wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> > I think it's all what you get used to doing.
> > Priscilla Rappaport does it with
> > the pins driven in first. Joel does it the other
> > way, as do I. Joel says she's
> > at least as fast as he is, if not more so! (I hope
> > I'm correct with this!)
> > 
> > Avery
> > 
> > >  On a different note I know several stringers who
> > drive all their pins 
> > > first and string later.  I have for the life of me
> > not been able to 
> > > figure any advantage with this technique.  In fact
> > it seems to have many 
> > > disadvantages.  Can someone  enlighten me?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >David Koelzer
> > >Vintage Pianos
> > >DFW
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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