In a message dated 2/10/2000 11:33:36 AM, Martin wrote: <<If any of you would care to comment on your first restringings and what I should watch out for, I would greatly appreciate it.>> To underscore what Jim said, if the piano has been previously restrung, you need to be especially mindful of the hitchpins. Case in point: I tuned a piano on Tuesday which I restrung (blank) years ago. Until now, I hadn't wondered why the waste lengths of the tenor section didn't continue in the same direction as the speaking lengths, it being a Decker & Sons grand. It suddenly dawned on me that I had faithfully duplicated the pattern of loop - tie - loop - tie... exactly as I had found it, not thinking that the previous technician might have gotten the pattern _backwards_ (as if it were absolutely a fluke that he/she drove the tuning pins into an unsupported pinblock, ultimately rendering it untunable, but _everything else_ about the job was perfect)! :-@ It's not enough of a flaw to RE-re-restring the beast (it'll sound just as bad strung correctly) but I'm happy to say the woman is soon passing this ill-tampered-with klavier onto her heirs. One of the main reasons that I want to do the best job possible is because I'm the main person who is going to be offended by a bad job, every...time...I...tune...it. What you do in haste you will rue in leisure. (S. Graham) Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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