Restringing just the bass

[Lance Lafargue]

Thanks Jon. Got it now.  The pin staying in the crank is a great idea!
Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Restringing just the bass
> Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 6:21 AM
> 
> OK,
> The pin is cut off   1/4" (6mm) below the hole.
> Now it is a short pin. or more correctly; what's left of a pin.
> 
> This way, when you are making a coil for say A1, you have more
> room since the bottom of the pin isn't sticking down into the other pins.
> 
> Cutting the pin up from the bottom reduces the length of steel
> to cut through, 1/4" as opposed to 5/8".  I leave my 'piece-o-pin'
> jammed into the crank so I always know where it is, and with the cut
> coming from the bottom I do not have to remove the pin from the crank.
> 
> Jon Page
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> At 07:32 PM 6/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Yeah, Jon. I just saw a slot in the top to the bottom of the becket hole
> >and use it that way. I don't understand the cut below the hole or the
tight
> >quarters idea.  I still can't picture it.  Explain again?  
> >Lance Lafargue, RPT
> >New Orleans Chapter
> >Covington, LA.
> >lafargue@iamerica.net
>