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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071105/9d114b9f/attachment.html
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