This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Glenn C=20 Yes, You are quite right. I do try to use the remaining string on = "borrowed" pairs by this method - but only on old pianos where to put in = new strings quite spoils the voiced chromatic tonal structure. I simply = loosen off the unbroken one of the pair at the wrest pin, strighten out = as much as possible the bend around the hitch and then (using my = vise-grips on the hitch to keep all in place) thread the loose end back = onto its wrest pin and take up the slack. Remove vise-grips, check = strings are on the bridge OK and there you have it. Quick repair job. = Another old dodge of mine is to repair broken wrapped strings (if they = break at the wrest pin) by removing the old coil, s l o w l y undo the = wrest pin about two whole turns, tie on a piece of new string using the = pre-formed reef-knot method, and there you have it... again. A quite = acceptable repair job in next to no time. For this repair to be = effective you have to carry around some left-over wrapped string ends as = the cores tend to be thicker than the thickest "metal" strings genarally = available - up to 0.050" some are. You also have to practice pre-forming = the reef-knot. Tricky. Nearest explanation is the way string looks as it = goes round the hitch pin, but the plan is more like an Ohmega sign with = extended "legs" and even then the round end is bent over to help with = this pre-forming. You know Glenn, you're the lucky ones over the other side of the pond - = we don't have any piano factories at all now in the old country. Even = Herrberger-Brooks have gone... End of an era. :-( Regards Michael G (UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Crashvalve@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Baldwin pre-cut string In a message dated 10/26/03 3:16:59 AM, michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk = writes: to use the old string by simply loosening off its companion, = straightening out the old string where it had been on the hitch, and = threading it up to the old wrest-pin and tuning up. I find that when = doing this the tonal quality stays the same and they don't stretch like = a replacement new string. hello michael I'm thinking you're referring to re-useing a Broken string in this = context, am I right ? BTW, this stringing dept. at conway was even more = surreal since they also used pneumatic hammers mounted on swing arms, = and the strung backs were laid on a forty-five degree angle fixture. and = this just a week after I toured Aeolian, whose stringers were scarily = bad ! Glenn C. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/41/4a/76/02/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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