<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: String Removal during Restring with Original Pins</title></head><body> <div>At 9:07 AM -0400 10/4/03, Jon Page wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Will you be using a dummy pin?  My dummy pin has been cut off 1/4"</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>below the becket with a saw kerf up into the hole. This allows the</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>coil to drop off the dummy without having to expand the coil, that's</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>done to get it on. I don't use the drop-off method on bass wire, it's</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>too stiff so it facilitates installing the coil in the piano if the coil is</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>expanded initally to get it off the dummy pin.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I can't imagine doing this without a dummy pin, although my slot runs down from the top to the becket hole. (It also drops into the 1.5" dia. dowel handle I use for winding coils during a standard stringing.)</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Unless you are pulling the plate, what's the point of comparing crown</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>strung and unstrung.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>If I wanted to correct bearing I'd think all I'd need would be the loaded bearing. I was attracted to the idea of completely unloading the board because the bridge rise (observed by dial indicators hung from a beam across the rim, and reading the bridge) would be a good measure of the resilience of the board, and the next opportunity to measure it wouldn't happen for many years.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Also the other argument for completely clearing all strings from the bridge, would be that the judgement whether to resurface/renotch the bridges needed to be done at the outset and based on seeing the whole picture. As opposed to  getting through two or three wire sizes before discovering (one wire size at a time) that in fact the stringing should have been preceded by bridge repairs. The same goes for inspecting the capo bar.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Tone quality is not an issue here. The piano played an entire month of chamber music this summer and was the favorite of two Ds on stage. It just happens to pop strings.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I assume this piano is in the customer's home.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Well sort of. It is his building but it's a 150-seat auditorium he put up for this chamber music program http://www.yellowbarn.org/. The owner is sitting in the front row (he's a micro-manager and I've gotten used to him auditioning my tunings.)</div> <div><br></div> <div>So I'm thinking I'll remove all strings at the outset.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Bill Ballard RPT<br> NH Chapter, P.T.G.<br> <br> "You'll make more money selling my advice than following it"<br>     ...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcom</div> <div>+++++++++++++++++++++</div> <div><br></div> <div><img src="cid:v04220802bba4db6e6743@[216.66.104.172].1.0"></div> </body> </html>