[pianotech] bass string twisting.

[John Delacour]

At 10:22 -0600 24/4/09, John Dorr wrote:

>Re: John Delacour's explanation of string twisting direction:
>
>John, you showed windings like ///// or like \\\\\, and told which 
>direction to turn from there.  But which end, left or right, is the 
>bottom (loop) end? And I assume that you're meaning to twist at the 
>loop, rather than the pin, because it DOES make a difference which 
>end you're looking at.

It makes no difference.  If you twist the pin clockwise when standing 
in front of the piano it is the same as twisting the eye clockwise 
when you're standing at the toe of the piano.

JD