Always good to make Dad feel useful...;-] There is a stringing tool, which is basically a tube you slide the crimped string into. I've heard a curtain rod also works. Of course your removing the action...a long piece of brass rod with a notch in the end...once the string is in place use a clamp of some sort to hold it onto the hitchpin...vice grip works. If nothing else the crimped wire will slide under the strings with a little *&^#%@. You have to hold tension on the wires so they don't want to slide between strings... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California Original message From: "Michelle Smith" To: "Pianotech List" Received: 7/10/2006 1:20:46 PM Subject: String replacement under overstrung area Hi everyone. I was tuning my mom’s ancient upright (1908) and of course a string broke. Even worse, it was D#4 and in the area where the strings overlap. While this was great stringing practice, I have to believe there’s a trick to getting the string where it needs to go (and stay there) without hours of heartache and assistance from my dad! I felt like I was torturing this poor old piano. Any words of wisdom? Michelle Smith Bastrop, Texas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060710/97bade78/attachment-0001.html
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