restringing bass

[Farrell]

Prices range from a low of about $3 per string to $8 per string.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: restringing bass


> What's the average/best cost for bass strings?  I
> would like to restring the bass section sometime soon
> in my 1913 (sn37123) Ricca & Son upright (10 mono
> notes, 17 bi notes) but I don't know if I have the
> money right now.  I am thinking about using the old
> pins for now (cause i have to be cheap) so I know it
> won't be very stable.  The A1 string length is
> approximately 56".
> 
> --- Tom Dickson <td_tuner@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Judy!
> > 
> >    Yes, tilters really work.
> > 
> >    I have an older one that I use all of the time. 
> > It works very well, and 
> > I tip a piano on my own.  Mind you, I am 6'5" and
> > well over 200 lbs.
> > 
> >    The tipping is not difficult, and probably the
> > toughest part is the 
> > lowering or lifting in the last foot and a half or
> > so when you have the 
> > weight of the piano on the handles.
> > 
> >    It is safe, and I also use a strap through the
> > backposts and around the 
> > tilter frame to make sure the two stay together.
> > 
> >    The only incident I've ever had was my first
> > piano tipping about 10 years 
> > ago.  Someone had a jar of water in the bottom of
> > the piano, and when I 
> > tilted the piano it all sloshed out the bottom of
> > the piano on to the floor! 
> >   Now, I always check the bottom, first!
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Tom Dickson,
> > 
> > Regina, SK
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >From: jstuart1 <jstuart1@pdq.net>
> > >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > >To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > >Subject: Re: restringing bass
> > >Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 04:08:42 -0500
> > >
> > >I have seen tilters in the catalogs, do they really
> > work and are they
> > >safe? How many people does it take to tilt the
> > piano up and back? I am
> > >5'6 and 155 lb.
> > >
> > >Judy
> > >
> > 
> >
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