Yesterday evening I fitted two of JD's lovely bass strings to a customer's piano. Handily, they live five minutes' walk away in the next street and are the sort of customer who presses a glass of red wine in your hand as soon as you arrive - would that more were like that! The two broken bass strings had broken in playing, not in tuning, at the V-bar, which was a little rusty. I applied a tiny amount of WD40 to each bass string at its bearing point over the V-bar. To do this I used a watch oiler, which is just a very tiny spatula. My hope was to prevent any further rust at the bearing points, and possibly break and prevent rust bonds. Do you think WD40 was OK to use for that? When I had fitted the strings and the son of the family, whose piano it is and who was home from Uni, sat down to play with the front still off, he noticed that the windings on the old strings were the other way from on the new ones. I thought it was just an optical illusion of the bright copper, but on close looking, sure enough, the old strings are wound anti-cloackwise. A thing to watch, if they had to be unhitched and re-hitched for any reason - very easy to put the turn on the wrong way! But I wonder how many customers would have spotted a thing like that! In the pics you can see the WD40 dark smudges on the V-bar at each string (incidentally, the pic makes it look as if the coils are not tight against the becket, but they are). Best regards, David. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DJ new string.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 50487 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080217/ba79222b/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DJ new string 2.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 49480 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080217/ba79222b/attachment-0003.jpe
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