Bought a tilter with Christmas gift money from my parents. Tipped the piano last night for the first time. Definitely worth the price of admission! <grin> Thanks for the help, folks!! Borgy > Absolutely. I did a bridge repair and that is how I left the strings. > Definately the way to go. You can tie them up and get them out of the > way quite easily. You will also find that doing all this work with the > piano tilted on its back on a tilter much easier also. > Terry Farrell > >> You mentioned removing the bass string completely. I wouldn't do that. >> Take them off the hitch pins but leave them attached to the tuning >> pins. >> No need to stress the beckets by taking them off the tuning pins. >> Rich >>> Feel free to remove the bass strings, without, lowering the tension >>> on any other strings. >>> It is routinely done, all the time, to change bass strings for a new >>> set. >>> Regards, >>> John M. Ross
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