The Stringer or a curtain rod?

Piannaman@aol.com Piannaman@aol.com
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:47:33 EDT


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Mickey,

The stringer sounds pretty good, but it's kind of expensive for my tastes.  I 
went to the local hardware store and found tiny brass pipes just long enough 
to do string work.  I haven't put in a divider, but it would probably make 
things a bit easier.

Dave Stahl

In a message dated 4/13/04 4:51:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mickeykes@charter.net writes:


> I recently tuned a crummy Everett spinet in a church, in a cramped corner 
> next to the pipe organ -- and a treble string broke.  I've been considering 
> investing in a product sold by Pianotech called The Stringer.  It appears to be 
> mostly just a long metal tube used to help insert a string in the proper 
> place without having to remove the drop action.  I seem to recall the Reblitz 
> recommended something similar: using a hollow curtain rod pole.
> 
> Does anybody have any experience with either technique?  Is a Stringer worth 
> fifty bucks, or will a curtain rod suffice?  Or do you have better 
> techniques for putting new strings in spinets?



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