---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Terry, I've never had to tie a loop for a vertical hitch. Sorry. Sounds=20 like the slow twist from a bass string might work though. Gotta go make some money now. Greg At 08:01 AM 6/24/2003, you wrote: >Greg, Ron and anyone else caring to chime in: > >The right (as opposed to the left or center) string on the piano I am=20 >restringing is individually tied to it's own hitch pin. I have installed=20 >vertical hitches on this piano. I tried tying a regular loop (so like,=20 >what is that?) while leaving some wiggle room (slack so it was not tight=20 >to the hitch), but that just came unwrapped. Roger Jolly spoke of German=20 >loops a while back. What are they? Perhaps to take full advantage of the=20 >vertical hitch, I really want to make a real loose loop like you would put= =20 >on a bass string? Yes? Ideas? > >Terry Farrell > > >>I have a rather simple loop maker that I purchased from the late Bob > >>Russell Sr. It is both simple and easy to use. It produces predictable > >>clean coils every time but is not without the possibility of gaffe's if > >>your not paying attention to what you're doing. I'll give a brief > >>description of it's construction. The body of it is from about a 1 1/2" > >>hardwood dowel with a hole drilled through it longitudinally. In that > >>hole is placed a brass sleeve insert through which ultimately the wire > >>will pass on it's way to the looping end. There is another hole drilled > >>through it tangentially(?) which has a key pin ( I think) going all the > >>way through and protruding out each side to act as a handle to turn the > >>dowel around the string passing through it. At the business end is a > >>small tack or nail with a head driven in to one side of the brass= sleeve. > >>To use, all one does is to pass the string through the sleeve and out= the > >>other side. Using round jawed pliers make a loop in the string. Put the > >>end of the loop against and under the nail head and slowly rotate the > >>tool making the string end rotate around and thus giving you the coils. > >>The only problem I ever have with it is visualizing which direction to > >>rotate the tool for the desired outcome on the string. I like the tail= to > >>stop and rotate downwards against the plate. FWIW, I hope this helps > >>someone. If you need a picture just yell. > >> > >>Greg Newell > > > >I made one similar, years back, with a couple of differences. First, no > >cross handle. Second, the other end has a #7 wood screw driven in and the > >head cut off, and a small screw driven in next to it as a wire guide for > >forming the loop around the #7 screw shank. The wire spring back sizes= the > >loop just right for the average hitch pin and you don't have to find a > >pair of pliers in your toolbox as well as the looper. Same size loop= every > >time, double loops if you're of a mind, with a minimum amount of wire to > >have to pull to tighten it on the hitch. > > > >Ron N > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > >Greg Newell >Greg's piano Fort=E9 >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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