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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Michael,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> My shepheards sits down with one =
leg crossed
under himself. He then passes the long end of the staff through =
the circle
made by his crotch and legs with the top part of the crook scraping his =
shin
both ends of the staff pass through the same hole.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can not see two the same =
holding.??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 04, =
2003 3:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fw: Fw: Baldwin =
pre-cut
string</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Joe Goss</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes. You end up with TWO shepherds =
crooks. First
mic. up the core of the broken(torn? why torn?) string, select =
the
closest from your left-overs from bass restring jobs, prepare the end =
like (as
you said) a shepherds crook then, taking TWO pairs of duck-billed =
pliers, bend
over HALF the looped end so that it conforms to the reef-knot in its =
completed
form. Next do thou likewise to the end of the broken string. Follow =
this with
(as you said) passing both ends of one through the loop of the other. =
Keep
trying and experimenting. It's a good wheeze and gets you out of a lot =
of
trouble very quickly and effectively. I have even been known to strip =
back
some of the wrapping in order to get enough core to make my knot - and =
it
didn't have any effect on the tonal structure. Now that's what I call =
queer.
:-}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards - and Get Knotted! =
;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G (UK)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=imatunr@srvinet.com href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">Joe =
And Penny
Goss</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 03, 2003 10:29 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fw: Baldwin pre-cut string</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Michael,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am having a little bit of a =
time trying
to see what you are saying in forming the knot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are you using a sort of shepherds =
staff-crook
with the crook bent over on one end and at the other a crossover loop =
also
bent over on its short leg?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The long and short leg of the =
shepheard loop
passing through the crossover loop?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
=
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 03, =
2003 2:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fw: Fw: Baldwin =
pre-cut
string</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Glenn C </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, You are quite right. I do try =
to use the
remaining string on "borrowed" pairs by this method - but only on =
old pianos
where to put in new strings quite spoils the voiced chromatic tonal
structure. I simply loosen off the unbroken one of the pair at the =
wrest
pin, strighten out as much as possible the bend around the hitch and =
then
(using my vise-grips on the hitch to keep all in place) thread the =
loose end
back onto its wrest pin and take up the slack. Remove vise-grips, =
check
strings are on the bridge OK and there you have it. Quick repair =
job.
Another old dodge of mine is to repair broken wrapped strings (if =
they break
at the wrest pin) by removing the old coil, s l o w l y undo the =
wrest pin
about two whole turns, tie on a piece of new string using the =
pre-formed
reef-knot method, and there you have it... again. A quite acceptable =
repair
job in next to no time. For this repair to be effective you have to =
carry
around some left-over wrapped string ends as the cores tend to be =
thicker
than the thickest "metal" strings genarally available - up to 0.050" =
some
are. You also have to practice pre-forming the reef-knot. Tricky. =
Nearest
explanation is the way string looks as it goes round the hitch pin, =
but the
plan is more like an Ohmega sign with extended "legs" and even then =
the
round end is bent over to help with this pre-forming.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You know Glenn, you're the lucky =
ones over the
other side of the pond - we don't have any piano factories at all =
now in the
old country. Even Herrberger-Brooks have gone... End of an =
era.
:-(</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G (UK)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> =
<A
title=Crashvalve@aol.com
href="mailto:Crashvalve@aol.com">Crashvalve@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 26, 2003 1:36 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fw: Baldwin pre-cut string</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva =
color=#000000
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>In a message dated 10/26/03 =
3:16:59 AM, <A
=
href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk</=
A>
writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF">to use the old string by simply loosening off =
its
companion, straightening out the old string where it had been on =
the
hitch, and threading it up to the old wrest-pin and tuning up. I =
find that
when doing this the tonal quality stays the same and they don't =
stretch
like a replacement new string.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT =
face=Geneva
color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR><BR>hello =
michael<BR>I'm
thinking you're referring to re-useing a Broken string in this =
context, am I
right ? BTW, this stringing dept. at conway was even more surreal =
since they
also used pneumatic hammers mounted on swing arms, and the strung =
backs were
laid on a forty-five degree angle fixture. and this just a week =
after I
toured Aeolian, whose stringers were scarily bad !<BR>Glenn =
C.</FONT><FONT
face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT>
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