tech exam results

Avery avery1 at houston.rr.com
Sun Aug 27 14:22:39 MDT 2006


Tom,

I guess I'm wrong but if it works and holds, that should be enough. JMO!

Avery

At 09:41 AM 8/27/2006, you wrote:
>List
>
>Made my hitch pin loop and it was perfect.  Got my coil going on the 
>pin and it too looked perfect except...only three coils and I was 
>thinking, "I need four".  So I tightened it a bit more, hoping to 
>add another coil to the pin, and BOINK.  It broke.  On a real piano 
>there's a pitch reference, so you know how much tension a string can 
>take, but on the little string board thingee, I had no idea how much 
>tension I had on there.  Just stupidity.
>
>And then my splice broke, too, (no excuses on this one) so I got a 
>bunch of zeroes in the stringing section, giving me a 72.
>
>Oh well...I can take it again in about a month.  Next time for sure.
>
>Thanks again to all who offered advice and good wishes,
>
>Tom Sivak
>Chicago Chapter Associate



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