Twisting new bass strings

[harvey]

Wim,

While waiting for Terry's response, this is one of the tricks I learned while
working for a certain dealer. This dealer wanted sizzle, not substance, and
refused to spend additional money to make pianos right. This procedure goes
under the "Never time to do it right, but always time to do it over" category.

Lower tension on bass strings. Manually unhook the becket. If repinning (yes,
new pins, old strings!), using power to remove pins is okay if done
-carefully-, otherwise do by hand.  On the resulting coil/becket, run a
screwdriver blade through the coil and pull (yank might be better word). The
coil will straighten out to the point that the becket portion can be fished
through the agraffe. This works... most of the time. The other times the
becket
doesn't survive the trip -- if not during uncoiling, then while replacing the
old becket back in the pin. At no time was I pleased with this procedure -- or
the results, and I'm embarrassed to post this information.

At 05:36 PM 6/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Can you please explain to all of us how you get the plate out of a piano, and
>keep the bass strings, to be reused later?
>Willem Blees RPT


Jim Harvey, RPT
harvey@greenwood.net