[pianotech] broken bass sting

[Norman Cantrell]

Al
The good news is that since you indicated that it broke on the loop, if you cut the wire just past the twist you have enough string for a couple of tries.  Ask me how I know.  This is a doable procedure and I just did it on a Wurlitzer spinet before Christmas.  Before you begin measure the overall length of the tail.  Tie a tight knot as Ron suggests then make your tail loop so you have about a half an inch less tail than the original.  This will let you end up with a tight tail that is approximately the right length.
Norman Cantrell, RPT

--- On Tue, 1/10/12, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] broken bass sting
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:44 AM

Thanks Ron, that sounds like a doable procedure.

Al -High Point, NC




On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
On 1/10/2012 6:32 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:
Thanks everyone. I'll give it one try. If it doesn't work, I'll take Joe
G's suggestion and just leave 2 strings and change the damper.

Ron, it broke at the hitch pin loop.

Ah, thanks Al. In that case, I'd splice on a length of wire, making the tiniest and tightest knot I could with the Vise-Grip technique, then bending a German loop in the end, indexing the wrap at the speaking length hitch to locate the bend and relying on the knot and loop tightening under applied tension to determine where the wrap ends up. I'd rather err toward the bridge pin than the agraffe.

Or you can do it "right" and replace all three strings, which will then sound different from everything around them and hold you hostage for touch up trips for the next year until they eventually stabilize.
Ron N


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