Marcel: I stick all of the waiting strings into a long cardboard mailing tube to keep them from flying, laying on a pad on the piano with the loop end toward the bass. I install either 2 or 4 of them at a time on the hitch pins and keep them in place with a series of small spring clamps while I walk to the front, cut to length, insert into the agraffe, and then coil and drive the pin. I then walk back to the tail, put the twists in each of the strings, install the next 2 or 4 on the hitches, walk back to the front, bring the prior batch up to tension, and then begin with the current group, cutting and pinning. And so on. This generally takes about an hour of focused work. There are those who put the twist in the pin end, but it makes no difference--the time is the same. Paul In a message dated 4/23/2009 9:57:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mcpianos at hotmail.com writes: I'm looking to improve (save time) on my bass strings installation and would like to know how some of you guys proceed. Since I do this alone, there seems to be a lot of my time walking around the piano to hitch one string, cut it to lenght, pass it through agraffe, coil it and insert the pin. Do some of you atart by inserting all strings in the agraffes and then walk around the piano to hitch all the strings and then coil and pin? Or do you hitch all strings and use some kind of weight to keep them in place while you install? After all these years I might get better at this. Thanks, Marcel Carey Sherbrooke, QC ____________________________________ Windows Live Messenger vous permet de rester en contact plus facilement- _apprenez comment!_ (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650737) = **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090423/083d923b/attachment.html>
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