Subject: Time: 9:29 AM OFFICE MEMO Bridle Wires Date: 8/31/95 Good Morning all! This past weekend as I was tuning a few pianos for local school district I came across a candidate for the "All time Hokey repair" award. A few bridle wires were broken at the wippen on an old upright and instead of replacing them, some technician(?) ahead of me simply glued the bridle tape to the bottom of the backcheck head. Interesting isn't it? To this end I did replace a couple of the wires (I ran out of replacements), but I was not satisfied with the result of my labors. Since I couldn't get the darn ends of the wires out of the wippens I ended up drilling a hole in the wippen as close to the original site as possible and set the new wires in the holes. Does anybody out there have an efficient repair method for broken bridle wires?
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