When I was at Bosendorfer in '77 they made the coils by hand. They thenb bend it back to the nail and bent round the extra end back and forth until it broke off leaving a nice coil with the tail pointed back and down so it bedded itself in the hitch pin punching. I never did master doing it that way. Not primitive, effecient and fast and not tool to pick un and lay down. Newton > I remember a fellow tech talking about how the Bosendorfer stringers > made the plain wire loops by winding the wire around a bent nail > held in a vise. The free end of the wire was wrapped around the standing end > with a pair of pliers. Sounds primitive but the wire would not be > unnecessarily stressed.
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