straight stringing

[Howard S. Rosen]

My problem in trying to understand your description is what you mean by
"end of the wire". Please differentiate between end of the short piece and
end of the long piece which you once refer to as "the standing length".
Thanks for your effort.

Howard S. Rosen, RPT
Boynton Beach, Florida


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> From: Ted_Sambell@BanffCentre.AB.CA
> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: straight stringing
> Date: Friday, October 10, 1997 8:04 PM
> 
>                       RE>>straight stringing                      
10/10/97
> Dear Kuang,
> 
> Sorry to be slow in reply respecting the Bosendorfer loops. First, they
are
> all made by hand, even in the factory; you can see this on the
Bosendorfer
> video, but you cannot see how it is done because the clip is only a few
> seconds long. I hope I can explain so that it is understandable.
> 
> 1. Fasten a pin slightly smaller than the piano's hitch pins at the very
> end of a vise's jaws. A suitably sized nail or something similar will do.
> 
> 2. Form a loop by taking the end of a piece of wire in the right hand,
> wrapping it around the back of the pin and crossing it over the standing
> length (which is held in the left hand) at just short of a right angle.
> 
> 3. Wrap four small coils around the standing length. So far this is like
a
> standard loop, but the next move is different: (Also, have the end of the
> wire pointing straight down). 
> 
> 4. Grasping the end of the wire, lift it and wrap it around the back of
the
> pin, on top of the already formed loop and form about threequarters of a
> loop.
> 
> 5. Lift the end of the wire over the TOP  of the pin and align it close
to
> the right edge of the loop and somewhat pointing downwards.
> 
> 6. Butt your cutters against the loop for a perfectly uniform length of
> tail, and cut away the waste length. 
> 
> It will take some practise, but once mastered the loops will come out
> perfectly uniform.
> 
> I would really like to know if I have made myself understood and if the
> foregoing works for you. It is quite difficult to describe these sort of
> things in writing, so feel free to contact me again if I have not been
> clear enough.
> 
> Sincerely, Ted.
> 
> Ted_Sambell@banffcentre.ab.ca 
>    
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Date: 10/4/97 6:18 AM
> To: Ted Sambell
> From: pianotech
> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 Ted_Sambell@BanffCentre.AB.CA wrote:
> > 
> > Of course, the individual loops pose something of a service problem, as
> > seemingly not many people duplicate them neatly and  replacement
strings
> so
> > often stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. Some years ago I
attended
> a
> > Bosenforfer seminar in Toronto and I asked the representative how they
> made
> > their loops, the ones with the arced tails.He didn't know! Anyway, we
> > experimented and finally found out how to do it. I do like the
> appearance,
> > and as the tail is angled up close to the hitch pin and rests on a
cloth
> > punching, it does not dig into the paint on the plate. 
> > 
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 	How did you duplicate the loops???  I have always wondered how
> this Boesendorfer tech in Vienna HAND-made those loops.  I wasn't there
> when he made those loops.  They where _identical_ to the original factory
> made loops that I couldn't tell which strings were replaced!.
> Thanks in advnce
> 
> Kuang Wang
> 
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