String rollers

[John Delacour]

At 18:00 04/10/01 -0400, Tom Servinsky wrote:

>Chip tuning is a factory term used to describe the tuning done without the 
>action being available. The stringer would "chip" or pluck the string

Hey, let's get the terminology right, guys! It's not chipping and it's not 
chip tuning; it's chipping UP.  And it's called that because it was usually 
and often still is done using a wood chip from the factory floor to pluck 
the strings.  There is no verb "to chip" with this sense.  Chipping is what 
small bad children do to ivory keys.

JD