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A pip is a small seed ("orange pip"). <br>
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I assume you have the horn wedge in place before you start tensioning?
Duct tape? <br>
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I usually neaten as I go -- not full tension, but enough to settle the
coils into some decency. I hate the feeling that I have all those messy
coils to deal with at once! That said, I admit that I'm quite slow at
stringing, though I get where I'm going. <br>
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Do you put a half twist on the bass wire when installing? Lack of that
might affect the liveliness of the tone, possibly more than the passage
of time before installing. I wonder if the fellow who complained about
tone tried going back and twisting the wire? There's that _very useful
tool_ which takes the hitch pin loop and presses it down over the hitch
pin. <br>
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Susan <br>
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At 03:32 PM 8/5/2005 +0100, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>A pip is
several thingys. If you part off a piece of work in a lathe, the bit that
remains on the piece is a "pip" which has to be removed. It is
also Sherlock Holmes Orange Pips" and any small thing that sticks
out..... (the mind boggles here. Susan and co look the other way)
:-)</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>BTW I now have all the metals on the S&S
and am about to start on the covereds. Then to gently tension it up......
time please.!</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Regards</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>Michael G.(UK)</font>
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<dd>----- Original Message -----
<dd>From:</b> <a href="mailto:741662027@theshusters.org">Cy</a>
<a href="mailto:741662027@theshusters.org">Shuster</a>
<dd>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a>
<dd>Sent:</b> Friday, August 05, 2005 12:22 PM
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: Restringing the Middle section of Michael G's S&S 'A'<br>
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<dd>Yes, but what's a "pip"? :-) A small raised bump? (Sherlock Holmes: "The Three Orange Pips")</font>
<dd> <font size=2>
<dd>--Cy--</font>
<dd>----- Original Message -----
<dd>From:</b> <a href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</a>
<dd>To:</b> <a href="mailto:avery1@houston.rr.com">Avery Todd</a> ; <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</a>@ptg.<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">org</a>
<dd>Sent:</b> Friday, August 05, 2005 3:11 AM
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: Restringing the Middle section of Michael G's S&S 'A'<br>
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<dd>What you call the 'becket'. Something left over from a totally different trade - that of roof tiling! Those little pips on the underside of a man-made tile to hang on the roofing laths.</font><font face="arial" size=2>
<dd>Michael G.(UK)</font>
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