What's helped me (besides practice!) is that someone once told me that the wires push the loop of the other into itself. In other words, the long part of "the wire" pushes the loop tail of "the splice" into the the wire of "the splice". I modified Jon's pic and attached it. (No copyright infringement intended!) At "A", "the wire" presses "the splice" "B" into itself ("the splice") at "C".  In order to (hopefully) minimize confusion I did not mark the corresponding points of "the splice" acting upon "the wire", but you can observe that the same-but-reversed is happening there. In order to bend the loops, I was taught to use size 5WR Vise-Grips (tm). <<I use LockJaw brand because, unlike ViseGrips, you set grip tension and not size. IOW, set it to grip size 19-1/2 wire "tightly" and it will grip a 3/8" nut with the same grip tension without further adjustment.>> Anyhow, pic of that is also attached. Paul <div>On 2/28/07, Jon Page <<a href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">jonpage@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <snip> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> To expand on the above link info, Let's say that the wire in the photo is the wire in the piano hereto known as the 'wire'. The golden wire is the 'splice'. Make a loop in the wire and give it a slight bend at the cross-over. Make the splice loop large enough to pass over the wire loop with the waste end pointing in the opposite direction from the wire loop and a slight bend at the cross-over. Pass the splice loop over the wire loop and slide it along the wire. Insert the tail end on the splice into the wire loop and draw tight. </blockquote></div></snip>