<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am restringing the bass on an old 6-foot Bauer grand. The upper four notes in the bass section are wound tricords. I'm going to let Jim Arledge smooth out the bass scaling. I suspect he will recommend converting the four tricords to bicords. I'm not rebuilding this piano, the owner just wants it to sound a little better. The few times I have converted tri to bi, I have swapped out agraffes. As this is a very basic "just get her up and running" type job, seems to me I should be just fine using the original agraffes and likely utilizing the outer positions on the agraffes, bridge pins and hitch pins.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any thoughts?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell<BR>Farrell Piano</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.farrellpiano.com">www.farrellpiano.com</A><BR><A href="mailto:terry@farrellpiano.com">terry@farrellpiano.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>