<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <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:none;border-left:solid black 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </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:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <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:none;border-left:solid black 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </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> </body> </html>