Stringing jig

[Michelle Smith]

Hi Avery.  Plum Pianos is in LaGrange.  Remember.the chicken house
discussion?

 

Mike is doing some great restoration work out there.  You should stop by
some time.  

 

Have a good one!

 

Michelle

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Avery
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:15 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Stringing jig

 

Is this in Houston? 

Avery 

At 07:01 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote:




Michelle,

Call Mike White at Plum Pianos and see if he has some waste pinblock
material of the right size, and ask him to drill the holes.  With Paul's
instructions, sounds like you could make a killer jig!  The next time I go
through there, I think I'll ask him (or probably Markus, who is more likely
to be there!) for some spare pinblock.

 

Richard


----- Original Message ----
From: PAULREVENKOJONES <paulrevenkojones at aol.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:58:46 PM
Subject: Re: Stringing jig

Michelle:
 
Here at the school I made 6 jigs in about an hour for our students from
pieces of pinblock material, 8" x 24" with a tuning pin toward one end as
the hitch (anything else would pull out and it just means that you have to
make your single-loop bigger to adapt, not a bad attitude to have), and two
pins offset toward the front. In between, I created a large half-round from
a 1 1/2" dowel for a bearing surface at the front, and a smaller half-round
from a 3/4" dowel as a rear bearing surface. There are no agraffes, but it's
plenty like a stringing reality to get the job done; splicing in the
non-speaking length is just as tricky. The jigs are clamped flat to mimic
grands, and double-clamped vertically to mimic uprights so that students get
to figure out the differences between wirebend strategies for the two. If
you want a picture let me know.
 
Paul
 
 
 
 
 
 
"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune
cookie)
 
 
In a message dated 05/02/07 18:19:39 Central Daylight Time,
michelle at smithpianoservice.com writes:

Hi all.  Does anyone have a stringing jig they would like to sell for
not-too-much money?  I need to start thinking about the PTG technical exam.

 

Thanks!

 

Michelle Smith

Smith Piano Service

Bastrop, Texas

(512) 466-0238

michelle at smithpianoservice.com

 

 

 

 



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