Harriet new strings & Tuner stamina

Bill Ballard yardbird@pop.vermontel.net
Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:21:27 -0400


At 12:55 PM -0700 4/24/01, Iņaki Coello wrote:
>Well, I donīt know if you use my way of string replacing: ,maybe is 
>useful for you.
>I make the coil in a sepparate tuning pin, instead in the piano 
>directly: this means I move less the tuning pin, so less pinblock 
>damage. Instead of turn back 2 and a half turns, give just three 
>quarters turn. Make in a sepparate tuning pin the coil with two and 
>a quarter turns, then move the coil to he piano tuning pin, and give 
>the ast three quarters helped with the tuning hammer and the coil 
>lifter. Tune quarter of tone sharp and then it will go dow again, 
>but ver stable, much more than if you make he coil in the piano.
>referring to he heavy weight of the case: The most heavy thing you 
>carry is the tuning lever. If you carry it attached to the belt, 
>like the nightstick of the policemen, the weight reduces 
>considerabl, and is not a charge in the shoulders: the weight is 
>suppoerted by he legs: very comforteble


Two very good suggestions. By the way, I would enjoy knowing more 
about you. I don't see a signature. I'm from southern Vermont (New 
England part of USA) and I'm up to my ears in back-to-school tunings.

Bill Ballard RPT
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