Last Hurrah?/ broken strings

[Newton Hunt]

This guy must be a sailor with that name.

I think tiny little knots are elegant.  If the knot is in the speaking
length and it is done well and the string is twisted I have been
unable to hear the difference in tone between the spliced and the
unspliced string.  Even on smaller pianos.  I can measure it but the
difference is insignificant.

Splice that mainstay!

		Newton

Yardarm103669107@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> Hey Joe:
> Every one but two were in the speaking length since most broke at the
> agraffe. This didn't do much for tone quality, but in that venue, it didn't
> make a lot of difference. The other two broke just above the agraffe and gave
> me just enough slack to make a knot between the pin and agraffe. Not elegant
> overall, but it did the trick.
> Cheers. Paul