Newbie Charles

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Tom,
              When restringing bass only , I find it faster to re pin, 
Point #2 the bass strings are often at a much higher tension than the plain 
wire, so there is some gain in tuning stability longer term.
Making coils and slipping them over the pins, can be a royal pain with the 
lower bass strings, a lot of time is wasted getting the coils nice and neat.
Like you I always use the correct size of wire.  When time permits I will 
also change the wire on all three strings and the adjacent note.   This 
eliminates recalls for out of tune unisons, and mis matched voicing.
Bass strings I order the two strings of bi chords. Again less call backs 
for wild unisons.  May as well get paid, the re call always turns out to be 
a freebe.

Regards Roger

At 08:59 AM 1/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>In a message dated 1/16/03 10:11:00 PM, Dpshans@aol.com writes:
>
><< breaking strings, snapping shanks when pulling an action, or getting ready
>to
>restring a piano by ordering ALL 88 tuning pins. >>
>
>OK, don't jump on me for this, but I don't get it...  I have restrung the
>bass sections of two pianos and I didn't replace the pins on either one.  One
>piano was absolutely fine when I finished, but I regret not having replaced
>the pins on the other one; pin torque was lower than I would have hoped for.
>I CA'd it, then I ended up replacing about 6 or 7 pins with larger sized
>ones.  If I had to do it over, I decided I would have replaced all the
>pins...
>
>So...tell me the joke here.
>
>Tom S
>
>P.S.
>Just for the record, I always match string size exactly when replacing a
>broken string and carry sizes 12 through 20 including half sizes.
>Interestingly, I haven't broken one for about a year... I thought I was just
>lucky, but the inclusion of breaking strings in a category that includes
>snapping shanks when pulling an action...  Is string breaking a newbie
>phenomenon only?  (Why would you so many of you carry string in all sizes
>with you if this were true?)
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