Stupid stuff

[Clyde Hollinger]

Friends,

I remember the time I needed to reglue a bass bridge to the apron in a
spinet.  After replacing the strings and pulling them to pitch they were
nearly all tubby.  Upon investigation I found I had put a twist in each
one the wrong direction!  I corrected my error, and all that was lost
was my time.

Clyde (the only Clyde on the list, I think)

John R Fortiner wrote:

>         Regarding that word "stupid"  I applied it to myself yesterday when I
> installed a set of bass wires on a grand piano.  The very first wire that
> I was going to install I had cut to the length it should have been for
> the WRONG tuning pin.  Was that stupid?????  Well, I sure felt like it
> was - especially with about 20 years of this stuff under my belt and
> never having done that previously in all the restringing that I have
> done.  The truth is that it wasn't "stupid" - It was a mistake, which,
> fortunately, Mapes can rectify for me in very short order.  Will I be
> more careful next time?- You bet!!