<html> <body> Hi all, I recently tuned a crummy Everett spinet in a church, in a cramped corner next to the pipe organ -- and a treble string broke.  I've been considering investing in a product sold by Pianotech called The Stringer.  It appears to be mostly just a long metal tube used to help insert a string in the proper place without having to remove the drop action.  I seem to recall the Reblitz recommended something similar: using a hollow curtain rod pole. Does anybody have any experience with either technique?  Is a Stringer worth fifty bucks, or will a curtain rod suffice?  Or do you have better techniques for putting new strings in spinets? Mark Kessler <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> _____________________ "The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments... Some people crave baseball . . . I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon." Frank Zappa </body> </html>