changing treble strings..

[Richard Moody]

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> From: BobDavis88@aol.com
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: changing treble strings..
> Date: Friday, April 18, 1997 2:32 AM
>
> > I had
> >  several people recommend snapping a vise grip on the hitch pin
but I
> >  never liked walking around the piano to do that chore nor the
marks the
> >  visegrip makes on the side of the pin.
>
> If you ever do want to use a clamp on the hitchpin, a hemostat with
plastic
> tubing slipped over each jaw works well without leaving marks.
> Bob Davis

You gotta walk around sooner or later, if pieces of tracker bar
tubing from player pianos work when slipped over the hitch pins that
will save you some trips, or that plastic tubing Bob mentions above.
Other wise threading the wire thru the bridge pins helps.
R Moody