<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Norman, good added info.<div><br></div><div>You guys are great! </div><div><br></div><div>How fortunate we are to have a world of experience and people willing to take the time to give of their knowledge on this list. </div><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 8:55 AM, Norman Cantrell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Al<div><br></div><div>The good news is that since you indicated that it broke on the loop, if you cut the wire just past the twist you have enough string for a couple of tries.  Ask me how I know.  This is a doable procedure and I just did it on a Wurlitzer spinet before Christmas.  Before you begin measure the overall length of the tail.  Tie a tight knot as Ron suggests then make your tail loop so you have about a half an inch less tail than the original.  This will let you end up with a tight tail that is approximately the right length.</div><div><br></div><div>Norman Cantrell, RPT<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 1/10/12, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <i><<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] broken bass sting<br>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:44 AM<br><br><div id="yiv258513681"><div>Thanks Ron, that sounds like a doable procedure.<div><br><div> <span class="yiv258513681Apple-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;font-size:medium;"><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="yiv258513681Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</div><br class="yiv258513681Apple-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></div></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>