The "Jolly Loop" (Modified by Kent Swafford)

[Delwin D Fandrich]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of V T
| Sent: April 08, 2005 12:55 PM
| To: pianotech@ptg.org
| Subject: The "Jolly Loop" (Modified by Kent Swafford)
| 
| 
| I would like to know if Roger's loops wood work as well with 
| Del's vertical hitch pins.  One attractive feature of the 
| vertical hitch pin is that the string is more likely to pivot 
| freely at the pin.  However a tight loop around the pin will 
| counteract that benefit.  So, I wonder if the trade off works 
| in our favor on a vertical hitch pin?
| 
| On a regular (angled) hitch pin it would seem to me that 
| Roger's loops are the best way to go.
| 
| Vladan



The German loop is unnecessary with vertical hitches. Of the two, vertical
hitches are acoustically superior but they are different. Most piano
manufacturers are frightened out of their teeth when they encounter anything
different.

Del