String Removal during Restring with Original Pins

[Joe And Penny Goss]

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Re: String Removal during Restring with Original PinsHi Richard,
We are on the third proto type of a simple coil becket tool.
One end works great and the other end needs some more modificatrion.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
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  From: Richard Strang=20
  To: 'Pianotech'=20
  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 3:39 PM
  Subject: RE: String Removal during Restring with Original Pins


  Please 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
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    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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