String Removal during Restring with Original Pins

[Farrell]

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Take all the strings off, then restring.

Will you be attending to the bridges?

I highly recommend that before you remove any strings, fully evaluate =
the shape of the soundboard (crown between all ribs), downbearing =
(front, rear, total, everywhere), and piano tone - soundboard =
performance (especially in the killer octave area - form your own =
opinion and be sure your opinion meshes well with the owner's opinion). =
Those steps will help avoid a situation where the owner thinks the piano =
is deficient in some way that actually relates to one or more of the =
above issues and thinks that new strings will fix a soundboard problem. =
I would also cover the issue that you can't guarantee that the =
soundboard will perform exactly the same way after restringing as it did =
before restringing.

Terry Farrell

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From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: String Removal during Restring with Original Pins


> Dear List,
>=20
> I about to restring a large piano leaving the original 2/0s in place.=20

SNIP
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