The "Jolly Loop" (Modified by Kent Swafford)

[Roger Jolly]

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Hi Dean,
                  James in now offering the Jolly loops, there is an extra 
charge. the knot is only about 7mm long ,average. You will have to measure 
the diameter of the hitch pin, and he will supply precision loops.  The 
stretch of the knot is way less than the traditional English loop. Some 
pianos, have two hitch pin diameters in the bass.

We have field tested this system over several years. Tuning stability 
caused by knot creep is significantly superior.

Regards Roger



At 06:20 AM 4/8/2005, you wrote:

>I love Arledge strings. Most of my work is done on middle of the road to
>low end pianos and they sound great. Much more consistent than I was
>getting from Mapes. When I used Mapes I would get sections that did not
>sound good. Was it voicing, dead area of the soundboard or bad strings?
>Who knows. Once I asked them to remake a section which they did and I
>got some improvement. I've never had to do that with Arledge.
>
>At the Indy convention last October Del spoke about reducing the size of
>the loops and getting them up off the plate to add flexibility in the
>backscale. Attached is a link to a picture of a Walters grand that was
>there showing off an unusual hitch pin Del likes to use.
>
>The next set of strings I ordered from Arledge I tried to get the
>shorter loop and they said they really couldn't do it. Has that changed?
>I want a set with the "Jolly" loops. ;-)
>
>I haven't tried the unusual pins. But I did try sticking a thin washer
>under the loops of one set to get the strings off the plate. It worked.
>Hard to tell how much improvement it actually made.
>
>Dean
>
>Photo at:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/62yu8
>
>Direct ptg.org URL:
>
>https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/ab/cb/d5/06/DSCF6402.JPG
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>Behalf Of Roger Jolly
>Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:26 PM
>To: files@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: The "Jolly Loop" (Modified by Kent Swafford)
>
>
>At 08:46 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>>I did try a set of Arledge strings with the "Jolly Loop".  S&S model
>>O.  While the piano also had a new soundboard with a modified bass
>>bridge which shortened the cantilever and extended the backscale a
>>bit, not to mention recalculated bass scale (thank you Del Fandrich),
>
>>the bass quality on this instrument was exceptional.
>>
>
>
>   Hi David,
>                     Including photo to answer the curious.  Theoretical
>
>increase in back scale length, to improve bass bridge response.
>
>   Regards Roger
>
>
>
>Photo at:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/4ydys
>
>Direct ptg.org URL:
>
>https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/files/attachments/0b/0d/04/aa/
>Jollybassloop.JPG
>
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