Sciortino Insta-Coiler

[G GRAVINA]

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Corte,

I use the Sciortino Insta-coiler often.  Joe Sciortino was a member of our 
Chapter here in Suffolk.  He was a friend to all PTG members, but took 
special pride in teaching beginning technicians.  He recently passed away, 
and is missed here by many.  I happen to have the original prototype of the 
Insta-coiler.  In fact, after many years of use, I've worn out the tuning 
pin piece, and retired it for posterity.  This original tool had about half 
the amount of metal below the string slot in the housing that fits over the 
tuning pin.  Because the supply house version has more material below the 
slot, the housing sometimes bottoms out on the plate and causes the coil to 
wind up on  itself.  I ground a bit of material off the bottom of the tool, 
and it works much better.  (Boy, a picture is worth...)

Anyway, hope this helps.

Jerry Gravina, RPT
Babylon, NY


>Has anyone had much success with the Sciortino Insta-coiler?  It's 
>probably better used when restringing an entire piano but as a farily new 
>part-time tuner, I bought one in hopes that it would make the occassional 
>broken string easier to replace.  Sometimes it makes a perfect coil and 
>other times, I have problems getting it to work.  Maybe I just need to 
>have more practice with it but it seems inconsistent.
>
>Any opinions?
>
>Corte Swearingen

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