has anyone ever done this....

[David M. Porritt]

Brian:

 

Make all bends crisp.  Lift the string in front of the agraffe.  Try to take
all slack out of the string even to using pliers to pull the slack out of
the coil on the tuning pin.  If you're tuning also, put that string on first
and leave it high.  When you're ready to leave tune it to as narrow an
octave as you think you can get by with.  It will fall.  It is amazing how
close you can get them if you tend to all the stretching and checking of the
bends.

 

dp

 

____________________

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Brian Doepke
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: has anyone ever done this....

 

I have a client that lives pretty far away and I have a new single wound
string to replace in her piano.  In order to save another trip out there
*after* it is installed.you know, for string +stretch+ , is there a way to
pre-stretch the string so that there will be minimal stretch after it is
installed?

 

Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee)

R.P.T. (Registered Piano Technician)

AAA Piano Works, Inc.

Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults

260.417.1298

260.432.2043

    www.aaapianoworks.com

 

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