Paul, If you can't get past it, do yourself a favor and at least string it at least a section at a time. It'll speed things up substantially, and won't hurt a thing. I routinely string pianos, pulling them to pitch as I go, so there is a time in every rebuild for me when there is one, then two, then three, etc. sections at pitch and nothing on the other sections. It can handle it. And dittos to the others comments of not taking tension down elsewhere - added wear on the agraffes, pin block, etc. William R. Monroe On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Paul T Williams < pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > Thanks, Susan, Fred and Jim! I'll do just that. String away. I do like the > 6 or 8 string at a time thing. Maybe I'm just paranoid of a plate cracking. > It' a Steinway from 60's. > > Any problem with plate stability in that era?? Sure a lot of other > problems though? not a straight line of wip holes to be found, but the > hammer flange holes are good. Who did this stuff, Mon? It must have been > the ganja! > > Best, > Paul > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100823/1d5fab4b/attachment.htm>
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