Hi Paul, You can in a pinch splice the bass strings by splicing using the coil wire. Just take it off the pin and unroll the coil and make the wire straight as possible. If the becket is not broken I use the becket end for the loop. On broken treble wires you can also usually rob enough wire from one pin and eliminate the need for a splice. In this you must remember to "iron" the wire to remove the kinks where the wire rested on the bridge pin. This will also seat the wire on the bridge eliminating most false beats Joe Goss. : Paul S. Larudee <larudee@pacbell.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 11:20 AM Subject: Re: String splicing > > > BobDavis88@AOL.COM wrote: > > > In a message dated 06/02/2000 10:51:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Paul Larudee > > writes: > > > > > Never saw much need to splice anything but bass strings. > > > > Like almost everything else, splicing of plain wire is a tradeoff, > > appropriate in some circumstances and not in others. The big advantage is > > pitch stability. One recall and the tuning of the spliced wire is usually > > acceptable until the next regular tuning. With new wire, the pitch is not > > stable for years. > > Bob, > > I always wondered whether splicing would be more stable than new wire, what with > the splice tightening up and the small length of new wire. I may give it a try. > I'm guessing that you are talking about breakage at the pin, or do you also let > wire off the other pin if the breakage is at the front bearing (capo or agraffe)? > > Paul > >
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