restringing bass

[Joseph Alkana]

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Terry,
Once you are set up to do the actual work, even a novice could restring =
in an hour or so. I once did a complete bass section with a helper in a =
half an hour. No big deal. I have all my pins ready at hand, tools all =
laid out and wire partially laid out with the helper feeding me the wire =
and putting on the hitch pins and thru the bridge pins.
New products that may be incorporated in the next project are bass =
strings from Arledge Music wire which require no twisting and Larudee =
Lo-torq tunings pins. These are oversized pins but the head and coil =
sections are 1/0 or 2/0. Should make my replacement time even faster!

By the way, we just got back from a great convention in Reno where I saw =
the above mentioned products. If you didn't go you missed a good one. =
Even the hotel chow was great.
Joseph Alkana  RPT
josephspiano@home.com
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  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:42 PM
  Subject: restringing bass


  First, thanks to ALL who answered my last email about the D.C.!

  I have a customer who wants the bass section of her 1914 Howard =
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  re-strung, but I'm not sure i want to take on the task. There are 42 =
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  bass strings; 10 mono/32bi-chords. I've left the original strings on =
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  not to overstress the 87 year old+ full upright, as i thought it would =
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  safer to take off old, replace with new as i go. But even at only 10 =
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  per string (old off-new on) it's gonna take over EIGHT HOURS!!! So i'm =

  thinking maybe I should refer it to another tech who has done lots of =
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  type stuff before. Thoughts?

  regards all!

  Terry Peterson
  Precision Piano Service
  Torrance, CA

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