A brief explanation: http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200001/2000.01.16.10.html Attached is a photo of the knot. To expand on the above link info, Let's say that the wire in the photo is the wire in the piano hereto known as the 'wire'. The golden wire is the 'splice'. Make a loop in the wire and give it a slight bend at the cross-over. Make the splice loop large enough to pass over the wire loop with the waste end pointing in the opposite direction from the wire loop and a slight bend at the cross-over. Pass the splice loop over the wire loop and slide it along the wire. Insert the tail end on the splice into the wire loop and draw tight. Because of the take-up in drawing the knot tighter at tension, cut the length to three fingers (omit pinky finger). Make your coil on a dummy pin and transfer it to the tuning pin. Ok, what's a dummy pin you ask? jpg attached. Instead of backing the pin in the piano out three turns to form a coil on it, make the coil on a loose tuning pin. This way, the pin only has to be backed out 3/4 turn to maintain coil height above the plate and 3/4 turn to get the string to tension. My dummy pin (jpg attached) is cut off 1/4" below the hole and a saw cut made up into it from the bottom, this allows the wire to slip right off. This works well for treble wire but heavier bass strings still need to have the coil expanded for transfer. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wireknot.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 17244 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070228/be4bdea3/attachment-0001.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dummy_pin.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 55148 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070228/be4bdea3/attachment-0001.jpg
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