At 22:25 +0100 12/05/2011, John Delacour wrote: >At 07:08 -0700 12/05/2011, David Love wrote: > >>You don't need a becket breaker. After taking down the tension I >>often use an awl or something similar to pry out the becket and >>then pull the string over the pin with a string hook. > >That's roughly the way I do it too. A full turn on the pin opens >out the coil and makes it easy to get the awl in. You can lever out >the becket by pivoting the awl at the top of the pin and then, with >a bit of practice get the coil off all in one motion. I can't >imagine a becket breaker (whatever that is!) could be any faster. I've just noticed I wrote an illustrated article some while ago on this procedure. You can read it at <http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/string_removal/> JD
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