Broken string repair

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

Hi Hazen,

You're talking about the end of the new spliced-on wire?  Same problem you'd have if you were installing a new string?  Here's a trick I learned from Richard Kingsbury:

buy a length of brass tubing at a model/hobby shop, 1/16" inside diameter.  Bend a curve in one end that will let you pass the tube under the pressure bar from the tuning pin side.  Now stick the end of the string into the tube, pull the tube back out, free the string from the tube, and you're ready to cut and coil.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Broken string repair


> List,
>   I had a string break yesterday on a spinet,during a pitch raise.It was the 
> last wound string on the treble side.I spliced the string with no problem,and 
> could not get it under the pressure bar,without it going under the felt.I 
> twisted,bent,tried different angles,everything with no luck.So I cut the 
> felt,pulled the wire on top,and pushed the felt back together,and pulled it 
> up to pitch.Does anyone have a trick for this problem?
> Thanks in advance,
> Hazen Bannister  
>