[CAUT] restrung D

[Daniel Gurnee]

Alan,

I have found bridges indented at the front bridge pin by that process 
of impressing the string in front of the bridge pin which allows the 
string at the front bridge pin to rise from the bridge surface as it is 
pulled to straight from the higher center on the bridge to the upper 
bearing.  As pianos become aged and heavily played the bridge may 
become indented at the front bridge pin but the present day has shown 
much more incidence from the practice of "setting the string onto the 
bridge.

I used to set the string onto the bridge but my process was to roll 
across the strings close to the bridge from bass to treble with as 
little pressure as possible but to produce the result of getting the 
string just to the bridge top.  That also tended to settle the string 
into the crotch of the  bridge pin and bridge top.  It has been noted 
not too long ago I believe by Jim Ellis, (Please correct me if I am 
wrong) that string wear on the pin also tends to raise the string off 
the bridge so that driving the pin down so that the upper angle of the 
wear will tend to capture the string pulling it to the bridge top.

I will now accept admonitions about long winded admonitions,

Daniel Gurnee, RPT, HSU Ret.



On Monday, April 9, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Alan McCoy wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> Do I understand correctly that you are tapping the string down onto the
> bridge in the middle of the bridge between the pins. Do you do this in
> addition to (or instead of) tapping the string toward the pin near 
> each pin
> just off the bridge?
>
> Alan
>
>
> -- Alan McCoy, RPT
> Eastern Washington University
> amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
> 509-359-4627
>
>
>>
>> In approximately one/half of the cases of "false" strings, a 
>> correction
>> may be more quickly made by driving the string into the middle of the
>> bridge making a straight line contact of string to bridge from the
>> front pin to the back pin.
>>
>> Daniel Gurnee, RPT, HSU Retired.
>>
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