<html> <body> David Stahl wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I was hoping for the best, but it was the usual 8-10 cent late-summer pitch raise. </blockquote> David...where do you live?  What scenario would require that you RAISE pitch in the late summer?  I think it more common to have to lower pitch by that time. David Skolnik At 01:39 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> List,   Friday was certainly an interesting day on the job.  First piano was an old Erhard upright, a nice old box made in 1919, pretty good shape.  It had a broken high treble string on it, which I'd been aware of, and I replaced it no problem.   Next piano, Acrosonic, circa 1950s.  Pitch raise, twang, G#2 wound bicord snapped. A perfect candidate for one of the universal bass strings a lug around.  As usual, spinning off excess copper was the most time consuming part of this job.  Again, no real problem.   I was thinking about how much I've improved in various repairs, thanks to many tips gleaned from this list and elsewhere in the PTG.  This type of repair was once something I dreaded, now it's just something I do in the line of duty.  "But," I told myself, "don't get cocky.  How long's it been since you've replaced a long wire in an understrung section of a piano?"  It had been awhile.   Which brings me to the next piano:  Steinway, a regular client, a nemesis piano that always finds a way to lengthen the appointment beyond an acceptable length.  A 1915 or so M re-whatevered badly a couple of decades ago.  I was hoping for the best, but it was the usual 8-10 cent late-summer pitch raise.  No problem, at least until I got to A3.  Twang.  The A#3-A3 wire snapped.  Went to the car, got stringing stuff including tube to get string onto hitch pin.  In the failing light of the day, I got the job done, but time would have been saved had I brought in my shop light so I could see better to route the wire through the bridge pins.   The upside:  3 strings on the day, no bloody finger tips.   The weirdness:  Haven't had a string break in a few months.  Why did they all gang up on me on one day???   Tip #1:  putting some tension on the wire makes it MUCH easier to get the string placed properly around the bridge pins in the understrung areas.    Tip #2:  Lighting is a good thing when doing this sort of job!   Thanks for reading,   Dave Stahl</blockquote></body> </html>