Restringing

[Farrell]

To each their own, BUT, if you have not done a few (at least) restringing jobs before, I would be very hesitant to do it the first time in someone's home. My first time took me a good 20 hours (in my shop). It came out pretty good, but there were more than a few things that occurred that I was glad the customer was not looking over my shoulder!

Also, consider that one of the most justifiable reasons to restring the plain wire sections is to attend to the speaking length terminations - capo filing, recapping, setting pins is epoxy, etc. You are really going to want to take the plate out for recapping or planing the bridge - all the more reason to do it in the shop. I know there are many views on this type of thing, but the bottom line for me at least is that I would not want to do this work for the first time in a customer's home. 

I guess the bottom line is simply to think real hard about how confident you feel about it.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net>
To: "pianotech (E-mail)" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Restringing


> Hello, all,
>     Piano restringing has always been a little out of my line of work, as I
> do not have a shop. However, I have a good customer that is requesting me to
> restring his grand on site, and I'm debating on whether I should accept the
> job or not. Any advice?
> 
> Richard
>