This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael Gamble=20 To: Matthew Todd=20 Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:34 PM Subject: Re: Stringing Tools Hello Matthew 1.A pair of thin leather gloves - to stop persiration from fingers to = new polished Roslau.=20 2.A stringing hook is useful.=20 3.A coil lifter is a necessity.=20 4.A strong pair of short jawed round nosed pliers - to help feed the = string in the wrest pin - but this is only if you have already got the = pins in the plank.=20 5. (home made) A round block of hardwood with a hole drilled in it and = off-set to this hole, but close to it, a round head screw - screwed in = but leaving about a quarter of an inch of bare shank. This last tool I = made from a broken leg from a University Students cafe. Heaven knows = what these students get up to. You dunk the new wrest pin in french = chalk, put it in this hole and feed the new string into it just short of = coming out the other side.=20 6.Then you use the next tool - a stringing crank (similar to the key to = wind up a grandfather clock) to wind the new string on the wrest pin, = guided by the afore-mentioned screw. Lifting out the wrest pin, keeping = the tension on the new coil, you insert the pin into the hole in the = wrest pin plank. This stringing crank has another, now important, = feature. It has a hole through to the top of the new pin. Into this hole = you put the next tool:=20 7.A longish parallel steel punch. With the crank still on the pin you = hit the punch (and thus the top of the wrest pin) with a heavy (next = tool)=20 8. Stringing Hammer. Mine is fairly hefty. Thus you start the newly = strung pin in its hole and can therefore remove the crank - its job, for = this string, done. Now, with yet another tool -=20 9.The wrest-pin punch - you pound the pin in to the required first = distance. This w-p punch is a hollow punch as you will see in your = catalogue. When putting the final touch on a newly strung piano I attach = a cocktail stick to the wrest pin punch so it sticks out and guides me = to get all the pins the same distance from the plank. Next you get a = pair of (new tool here)=20 10. Strong duck-bill pliers and flatten in the "kneb" - this is the = little loop where the first coil on the pin as it goes into the pin hole = protrudes a bit and can lead to instability in the tuning if not dealt = with properly. Now the coil lifter (3)comes into its own. I'm lucky and = have a very old coil lifter. If it were flattened out it would look like = a screw driver with a half-moon cut out of the tip. You simply cannot = get the flat coil lifter in between the tuning pins for those final = adjustments when all the pins are in. So - how many tools is that? 10? = Good luck! You've probably got the hammer....... Regards from the blue skies of Sussex-on-Sea Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Matthew Todd=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Stringing Tools Hello guys, I am in the process of purchasing some stringing tools, and I would = like to know the wisest venture that would save me the most money. For example...I don't think I will purchase a wire gauge. They are = spendy in my opinion. In stead, I purchased a nice digital micrometer = that I can use to measure string size, and I can also use it to measure = center pins, keytops, etc. And I also know that there are certain stringing tools that are a must = to have in order to replace strings properly, and I know there are some = tools that are not a necessity to have...they just make the job go = easier. I am just trying to find out exactly a list of the tools I need to = replace treble strings that I absolutely need to have to get the job = done. Thanks! Matthew Todd Todd Piano Works Piano Tuner/Technician Tuning - Repairing - Regulating=20 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around=20 http://mail.yahoo.com=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e1/c4/5e/e0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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