beckets

[Clyde Hollinger]

Don,

Well, I usually use three coils, so I reckon that's what I tried then.  That
was eleven years ago.  It never occurred to me to try roughening the pin.

Regards, Clyde

Don wrote:

> Hi Clyde,
>
> Did you try four turns or five?
>
> What about roughing the surface of the pin?
>
> I hope I never have the pleasure of this problem.
>
> At 09:42 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Terry,
> >
> >I had that happen once when the top-most string tore, C8 center and right.
>  I tried three times to replace the string, and every time as I tried to
> pull the string to tension, the string would slowly pull out of the hole.
> As far as I know, to this day that piano has only one string on C8.
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.