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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Brian:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Make all bends crisp. Lift the
string in front of the agraffe. Try to take all slack out of the string even
to using pliers to pull the slack out of the coil on the tuning pin. If you’re
tuning also, put that string on first and leave it high. When you’re ready to
leave tune it to as narrow an octave as you think you can get by with. It will
fall. It is amazing how close you can get them if you tend to all the
stretching and checking of the bends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>dp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>David M. Porritt, RPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><a href="mailto:dporritt@smu.edu">dporritt@smu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian
Doepke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Pianotech List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> has anyone ever done this....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
have a client that lives pretty far away and I have a new single wound string
to replace in her piano. In order to save another trip out there *<b>after</b>*
it is installed…you know, for string +stretch+ , is there a way to pre-stretch
the string so that there will be minimal stretch after it is installed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brian
P. Doepke, (dep-kee)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>R.P.T.
(Registered Piano Technician)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AAA
Piano Works, Inc.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>260.417.1298</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"'>260.432.2043</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'> www.aaapianoworks.com</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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