yea but, the next person following up behind you might count them.. :-))) -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Elwood Doss Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:29 PM To: David Ilvedson; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] string replacement I make two turns of the coil on a dummy tuning pin and turn the receptor tuning pin out two turns. Works for me...and, yes, I do this on an upright. I turn the pin sideways and out away from the other pins and, using a T-lever make the coil. I guess I'm sloppy, but I don't worry about whether I have 3 or 4 coils on the tuning pins. I've never had a customer count the coils and tell me I screwed up. They are just excited to get the broken string replaced...makes that note, as well as adjoining notes, sound way better (grin)! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 -----Original Message----- From: David Ilvedson [mailto:ilvey at sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:31 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] string replacement Which begs the question...how many are making their coil on a dummy tuning pin and backing out the tuning pin only 1 turn instead of 3? It took me awhile to start doing that, but now it's automatic...although, for some reasons it's harder (for me) on uprights... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: A440A at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 6/4/2009 2:01:06 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] string replacement >Jerry writes: ><< Also count out about 3 full turns maybe even 4 depending on the piano. >Count the coils on it now. Some have 4 coils around the tuning pins some >have 3 others have 2.5 coils. I prefer 3 myself but, I will copy what it is >there on that particular piano so it looks exactly the same as the others >when I'm done. >> > Does this mean that you turn the pin out of the block 3 turns, and >then turn it back in to make the coil? >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Limited Time Offers: Save big on popular >laptops at Dell >(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221354145x1201369495/aol?redi r=ht >tp:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215221161%3B37268813%3By) ></HTML> _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090604-0, 06/04/2009 Tested on: 6/4/2009 11:15:19 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.
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