<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)" name=Generator> <STYLE>  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" vLink=purple link=blue bgColor=white>That is true...still, I would prefer to get it out of the way...see you tomorrow afternoon David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message From: "David Love" <DAVIDLOVEPIANOS@COMCAST.NET> To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> Received: 7/10/2006 2:53:41 PM Subject: RE: String replacement under overstrung area <DIV class=Section1> You can usually just lean the action forward slightly to give clearance.    <DIV> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com </DIV> -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Ilvedson Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:34 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: String replacement under overstrung area   Easier is always better...I also don't like "bitching up" damper felts.  How long does it take to remove the action?   Less than minute ...YMMV David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: black 2.25pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> Original message From: Farrell <MFARREL2@TAMPABAY.RR.COM>To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>Received: 7/10/2006 1:59:40 PM Subject: Re: String replacement under overstrung area I don't find there to be any reason to remove the action for a tenor string replacement. Sure, it would be easier, but I don't think the small advantage is worth it. <DIV>  </DIV> <DIV> YMMV</DIV> <DIV>  </DIV> <DIV> Terry Farrell</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 5pt 0in 5pt 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> ----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="font-color: black">  </DIV> Always good to make Dad feel useful...;-]   There is a stringing tool, which is basically a tube you slide the crimped string into.  I've heard a curtain rod also works.   Of course your removing the action...a long piece of brass rod with a notch in the end...once the string is in place use a clamp of some sort to hold it onto the hitchpin...vice grip works.   If nothing else the crimped wire will slide under the strings with a little *&^#%@.   You have to hold tension on the wires so they don't want to slide between strings... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: black 2.25pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </DIV> Original message Hi everyone.  I was tuning my mom’s ancient upright (1908) and of course a string broke.  Even worse, it was D#4 and in the area where the strings overlap.  While this was great stringing practice, I have to believe there’s a trick to getting the string where it needs to go (and stay there) without hours of heartache and assistance from my dad!  I felt like I was torturing this poor old piano.  Any words of wisdom?   Michelle Smith Bastrop, Texas    </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>