Most of my work is tuning in the field, but over the years I have done most of a hundred restringings. I do a LOT of in-home restringings (including pinblocks)... saves on time, and the extra cost of moving the piano back and forth. I've gotten the actual stringing part down to between 6 and 8 hours. Anyway... regarding Glenn's comments... which were quite good, considering this was after his second stringing... he said: "Very important: support the pinblock with a jack. Scissor type car jacks work fine. Don't forget to move it along. DON'T FORGET TO MOVE IT ALONG, oh and don't forget -- you get the idea!" What I do, since I would forget otherwise, is to find the first unsupported tuning pin hole past the supported part underneath, and then put a piece of masking tape over that tuning pin hole. Then, when I get up to the masking tape, I know to move the jack! Just my 2 cents!! Richard Lapo, Jr. RPT in NY
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