<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hi John, I agree, restring the whole piano, along = with new over sized tuning pins, redoo the action, new shanks, butts, hammers, = etc.  Hallet & Davis made a decent piano, so it should be a nice = one.  Lynn Rosenberg</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net" = title=jonpage@mediaone.net>Jon Page</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 26, 2000 = 8:06 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: restringing = question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=3>Leave well enough alone. Have the bass = rescaled and put your efforts<BR>into the action and dampers.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page<BR><BR>At 11:55 PM 11/25/2000 = -0800, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">I'm curious -- How easy/hard is it to = change the number of strings per note on a few notes when you're = restringing a piano (but not replacing the plate (of course!) or pinblock)?  = For example maybe there's 2 wound strings per note in a section and the technician wants to change it to 3 plain, or 1 wound to 2 = wound.  My family has an old Hallet & Davis 52 1/2" upright (serial #107906 = made in 1921) which has 1 string per note from A1 to B15, 2 strings per note = from C16 to A#26, 3 strings per note from B27 to C88.  It needs some = work (new hammers, bass strings (probably all strings) replaced, tuning = pins seem to still be holding tune but was almost 1/4 step out of tune after = about 2 1/2 to 3 years of sitting), basically a minor rebuilding job.  = If I changed the stringing scale, I would extend the 2 strings per note = down to A13 or G11 (currently lowest 2-string note is C16) -- what would be = your advice on = that?<BR><BR><BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Do= You Yahoo!?<BR>Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! = Messenger.<BR><A href="http://im.yahoo.com/" = eudora="autourl">http://im.yahoo.com</A><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>Jon Page,   piano technician</DIV> <DIV>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net" = EUDORA="AUTOURL">mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net</A></DIV>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>