String splicing

Jon Page jonpage@mediaone.net
Sat, 27 May 2000 12:53:37 -0400


At 10:58 AM 05/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:


>How do you deal with the largest of the bass strings with core wire
>diameters of largest sizes?  Do you have to order a roll of these large
>diameters which, it seems to me, would be a three or four lifetime
>supply?
>thanks
>les bartlett
>houston- splicing hater

Save the waste ends of the large core wire when your are replacing a set.
Keep the ones which mic larger than your wire stock.

One set will give you enough for many bass splices. How often do you have
the opportunity to splice the big'uns anyway.

Regards,

Jon Page,   piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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