Les, How about sharing your method, step by step? (I know, lots of work. Thanks in advance.) Oh. I almost forgot. You are not quite the last one doing this by hand. Best. Horace >Hi, Lance. > >I do, or did, quite a lot of restringing work over the years on pianos >that were old enough that they had individually tied strings in their >tenor sections and either partially, or all the way through their treble >sections as well. As tight, neat, symmetrical coils at the tuning pin >bespeak a quality stringing job, so do tight, neat, symmetrical tails on >the individually tied strings at the hitch pin. I have two, different >looping machines in my shop which I never use. After all these years, I >still find that a better job can be done by tying the strings off by >hand. I like to leave enough string at the end of the tail, that it bears >against the plate and keeps the wound portion from unwinding as the string >is brought up to tension. In areas where interference from a brace pre- >vents such an addition to the tail, one can achieve the same results by >tying off the string with an "inside" tail. Whatever method you use, by >machine, or by hand, the tied off portions of the strings at the hitch pin >should be as uniform as the string coils at the tuning pin. > >Les (probably the last tech left tying off strings by hand) Smith >lessmith@buffnet.net Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu LiNCS voice: 725-4627 Stanford University fax: 725-9942
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