restringing -Reply

[Jon Page]

Peter,
Keep the tension on the strings. Remove the bass strings from one
or two unisons, replace the strings (and pins if necessary) and pull up
to pitch. Move on to the next few unisons. Lowering the tension over all
and bringing it back up is a waste of time.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 03:58 PM 4/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Peter: My first thought was "Don't lower the tension on the rest of the
>strings. Maybe if you are lucky the plate will break and you'll be done
>with it." Hope I'm not treading on any toes, but the Gaveaus I've seen
>were just pretty pieces of furniture. Whether or not you lower the
>tension throughout the piano, the other strings will go wildly out of tune,
>so you might as well play it safe and lower the tension throughout the
>piano a bit, say a whole step. When you remove the bass strings, the
>treble will go sharp, so after installing the new strings you'll be tuning
>tuning tuning anyway. Have fun.
>David Graham,RPT
>dgraham@niu.edu
>
>

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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