Sounds more like to me that the bridge pins were mis-placed then the hitch pins.. tho I am not sure you can do much about that. If you move the hitch pins, make sure you keep adequate side bearing on the bridgepins.. but then you knew that didnt you...:) Farrell wrote: > Hey folks. I am restringing and rescaling a small grand. The hitch pins for > the lowest five notes (wound bicords) on the tenor bridge appear to be > displaced up to 7 mm toward the bass side from a straight line from the > agraffe across the bridge pin holes and to the hitch pins (i.e., the string > makes a gentle bend around the speaking side bridge pin, and a much sharper > angle as it goes around the bridge pin closest to the hitch pin). That seem > like a lot to me. For several strings it would actually be better alignment > to put the string on the adjacent hitch pin on the treble side. > > My question. This is a low budget affair, although I always wish to do these > things right. How would such poor alignment affect a little piano. > Presumably I will fix it. I would suppose the best way to go about it (being > that I am not recapping the bridge) would be to reposition these last ten > hitch pins. Agree? Thanks for any thoughts. > > Terry Farrell > Piano Tuning & Service > Tampa, Florida > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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