<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>That's how I've been doing it. Pulling up on the middle of the string to keep straightening the coil. But I've only done it enough to take the string off the hitch pin. Not the tuning pin.</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Euphonious Thumpe<br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Douglas Gregg <classicpianodoc@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pianotech
<pianotech@ptg.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [pianotech] Cleaning Very Old Plate (now string cleaning)<br> </font> </div> <br>
Thumpe,<br><br>I would not want to heat the coil end of the string as this will<br>probably take the temper out of the end of the string if you heat it<br>enough to make it malleable. It would likely either break more easily,<br>or stretch, or both.<br><br>It is actually fairly easy to get it straight by hand. If you pull up<br>in the middle of the string as you are unwinding the coil from the<br>tuning pin, you will end up with a long helical winding that can be<br>straightened further with fingers and/ or electrician pliers. Pliers<br>help when you get to the end near the becket.<br><br>Doug Gregg<br>Classic Piano Doc<br><br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:05:49 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: Euphonious Thumpe <<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" saprocessedanchor="true" ymailto="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" original_target="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" saprocessedanchor="true"
ymailto="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" original_target="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [pianotech] Cleaning Very Old Plate (now string cleaning)<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:1337897149.92361.YahooMailMobile@web114718.mail.gq1.yahoo.com" saprocessedanchor="true" ymailto="mailto:1337897149.92361.YahooMailMobile@web114718.mail.gq1.yahoo.com" original_target="mailto:1337897149.92361.yahoomailmobile@web114718.mail.gq1.yahoo.com">1337897149.92361.YahooMailMobile@web114718.mail.gq1.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Would heating the straightened-out coils with a torch in some uniform,<br>controlled manner prior to reinstalling perhaps help prevent them from<br>breaking when being wound again around the pins???<br><br>Thumpe?<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL:
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