<font color='black' size='2' face='Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif'><br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.html</font></div> <br> Dave asks:  <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">>></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">I need to replace the bass strings on a screw stringer upright, does </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">anyone have a stringing process for these </span></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">they'd be willing to share? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">And/or a source of spare parts if any break? They seem healthy but you </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; ">never know...</span> <div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:10pt;color:black"> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_a22360ed-e009-4bdb-b5d6-9df20613a18a" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greetings, </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></font> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> The only time I replaced a string on one of these was many years ago, but I remember that I had to lower the hook as far </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as it would go and still have threads engaged. Pull the wire as tight as you can before making the first anchor loop, and you should have </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">enough threads to bring the string up to pitch. </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Good luck, </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal; "><br> <br> <div style="clear: both; "><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.html</font></div> <div><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><br> </font></div> </span></pre> </div>  </div> </div> </font>