---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 2/21/03 12:22:20 AM !!!First Boot!!!, cedel@supernet.com writes: > Friends, > > A piano-tuner beginner was trying to explain something to me she found > in an old Baldwin upright. If I understood the description correctly, > the bass string hitch pins were in wood rather than the cast iron > plate. Was there ever anything like this? I haven't seen the piano. > Apparently the wood is all split up. My hunch was she's talking about > the bass bridge, but she said where the string ends at the loop. > Responses? > > Regards, > Clyde > > Me thinks she has her terminology wrong, or that she isn't sure what she saw. I have never heard of strings being attached to wood hitch pins. I don't think they could stand up to the tension. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/45/ef/63/f3/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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