<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Ron, that sounds like a doable procedure.<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 1/10/2012 6:32 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks everyone. I'll give it one try. If it doesn't work, I'll take Joe<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">G's suggestion and just leave 2 strings and change the damper.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ron, it broke at the hitch pin loop.<br></blockquote><br>Ah, thanks Al. In that case, I'd splice on a length of wire, making the tiniest and tightest knot I could with the Vise-Grip technique, then bending a German loop in the end, indexing the wrap at the speaking length hitch to locate the bend and relying on the knot and loop tightening under applied tension to determine where the wrap ends up. I'd rather err toward the bridge pin than the agraffe.<br><br>Or you can do it "right" and replace all three strings, which will then sound different from everything around them and hold you hostage for touch up trips for the next year until they eventually stabilize.<br>Ron N<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>