String Splice Time

[Tom Driscoll]

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From: <kam544@flash.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: String Splice Time


> >... I'm beginning to consider splicing more, even though I don't like
> >the looks of it.
> >
> >Regards, Clyde
>
> Splicing is one of the spices of piano repair, Clyde.  I highly recommend
> on old Piano Technicians Journal article, December 1977, page 6-15, by
> Yat-Lam Hong about string knots.
>
> If this doesn't get the juices flowing for you, then you aren't the
> internet piano person I think you are.
>
> As for looks, once in the groove of doing such a thing, each one becomes a
> work of art in itself, and this art form connects you to the world only
> knotty people know and understand !
>
> Keith McGavern aka McKnot  :)
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA
>
> I agree !  If the knot fails you've lost nothing, and getting them to fit
in tight spaces can be challenging.I love to see dusty old splices from
decades past still hanging in there.  Tom Driscoll.