This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageI doubt that it saves time or money, with the extra cost of = preparing and inventorying individual string lengths for each piano = model, and then pulling them out of stock. Compare that with a bulk = reel of wire of a certain gauge: only takes a second to snip it to the = right length, and you've got the same number of tuning pin coils to = make. It is amazing that a 180 around a hitch pin is sufficient to separate = two different tensions. Some hitch pin loops are formed with two wraps = around the pin; I wonder why they don't do two loops around every pin? = (Must not make a difference, eh?) --Cy Shuster-- Rochester, MN ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mark Dierauf=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: RE: There's always a hitch I would think that you might expect slightly better tuning stability = with this system. On large pitch changes there's no way that the tension = of one string of a unison can effect the other strings as might be the = case with normal strings looped around a hitch-pin. Having all three = strings the same length from hitch-pin to tuning pin can only help. My = thinking is that once set up it might save significant time during the = factory stringing process by having all strings pre measured for any = given scale. =20 - Mark =20 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Lamos [mailto:selahpiano@hotmail.com]=20 Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:02 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: There's always a hitch =20 List, I prepped a Kohler & Campbell grand (KCG-650) the other day and = being of little knowledge I was wondering what is the point of having = all the treble wires each individually tied off on their own hitch pin. = Surely it can't be tuning stability(?). Or is it intended to save $$ = for those that habitually break strings? You know, better to break just = one than two. =20 Confused but peaceful, Peter Lamos Brunswick, GA=20 =20 _____________________ selahpiano@hotmail.com=20 =20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/26/28/e0/04/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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