Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

[John Formsma]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com>
wrote:

>  Hi John,
> With the concert use and distance. I would not replace the string, but
> alter the damper head to control sustain.
> I have never been able to splice a Yamaha bass string. The swedge seems to
> be too close to where the knot is,
> and the string breaks again every time. But still I try to splice.
>

Joe,

The strange thing about it was that the damper worked without needing any
modification.

I should have mentioned before that the splice was above the pressure bar.
The string broke at the tuning pin.

Do you charge for your splicing attempts that fail? :-)

-- 
JF
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