Leveling Coils & Pinching Becket

[Gordon Holley]

List.  I tuned a Kranish & Bach 5' Grand, 1918, last Saturday and was 
amazed at a terrible job of restringing another local technician (not 
a PTG member) did some 20 years back.  The owners had no idea what 
they were looking at but here's what I saw.

1.	The pins were too high above the plate.
2.	The coils were not leveled AT ALL.
3.	The becket was not pinched in to the pin leaving a very visable 			
      open loop before coming back to the pin on the first coil.
4.	The strings were not spaced properly at all. 

	I have read through my filed conversations between Roger Jolly, Ed 
Foote, Joe Garrett, Jim Bryant, Isaac Oleg, Ron Nossaman, Richard 
Brekne and Alan Barnard, on the subject of "String Settling" back on 
July 12 & 13, 2003.

	Joe Jarrett said that Jim Bryant gave him a coil setting tool, which 
I would assume would be used when restringing.  Is a picture of this 
tool available?

	Main question:  I've not tried to level coils 20 years after the 
piano was restrung.  How is it done?.  I do have the typical string 
leveling tool.  This I didn't find in the discussions between these 
sage individuals.

Regards, 
Gordon Holley
Associate Member, Indiana Chapter 467