String Removal during Restring with Original Pins

[Richard Strang]

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Re: String Removal during Restring with Original PinsPlease send a picture
of your dummy pin. I have been fighting with beckets for years and looking
for and easy way to get the coil off the dummy pin easily. Thanks

Richard
  -----Original Message-----
  From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Ballard
  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 3:49 PM
  To: Pianotech
  Subject: Re: String Removal during Restring with Original Pins


  At 9:07 AM -0400 10/4/03, Jon Page wrote:
    Will you be using a dummy pin?  My dummy pin has been cut off 1/4"
    below the becket with a saw kerf up into the hole. This allows the
    coil to drop off the dummy without having to expand the coil, that's
    done to get it on. I don't use the drop-off method on bass wire, it's
    too stiff so it facilitates installing the coil in the piano if the coil
is
    expanded initally to get it off the dummy pin.


  I can't imagine doing this without a dummy pin, although my slot runs down
from the top to the becket hole. (It also drops into the 1.5" dia. dowel
handle I use for winding coils during a standard stringing.)


    Unless you are pulling the plate, what's the point of comparing crown
    strung and unstrung.


  If I wanted to correct bearing I'd think all I'd need would be the loaded
bearing. I was attracted to the idea of completely unloading the board
because the bridge rise (observed by dial indicators hung from a beam across
the rim, and reading the bridge) would be a good measure of the resilience
of the board, and the next opportunity to measure it wouldn't happen for
many years.


  Also the other argument for completely clearing all strings from the
bridge, would be that the judgement whether to resurface/renotch the bridges
needed to be done at the outset and based on seeing the whole picture. As
opposed to  getting through two or three wire sizes before discovering (one
wire size at a time) that in fact the stringing should have been preceded by
bridge repairs. The same goes for inspecting the capo bar.


  Tone quality is not an issue here. The piano played an entire month of
chamber music this summer and was the favorite of two Ds on stage. It just
happens to pop strings.


    I assume this piano is in the customer's home.


  Well sort of. It is his building but it's a 150-seat auditorium he put up
for this chamber music program http://www.yellowbarn.org/. The owner is
sitting in the front row (he's a micro-manager and I've gotten used to him
auditioning my tunings.)


  So I'm thinking I'll remove all strings at the outset.


  Bill Ballard RPT
  NH Chapter, P.T.G.

  "You'll make more money selling my advice than following it"
      ...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcom
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