This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Back the original pin off by 1 turn. Cut a piece of wire a bit longer = than you will need. Bend the hitch pin bend with a round nose pliers. Put = the wire on the hitch pin and pull the wire taught through the agraffe or = capo and cut the wire to length. Wind the string onto a dummy pin with 2 =BD turns. Remove the wire from the dummy pin and transfer it to the = original pin using needle nose pliers. Insert the becket and squeeze the coil to = get the wire fully inserted into the becket with a parallel pliers. Do the same for the other end on the other pin. Pull to tension alternately = with and use a string lifter being careful that the wire doesn=92t overlap. Squeeze the wire at the becket again. Massage the wire along its = length. Pull to pitch. Massage some more. Pull to pitch. Grip the coil with parallel pliers and turn the pliers in the direction of the coil. Pull = to pitch. Do it all again. Pull to pitch. Level the strings. Pull to = pitch. Massage the wire at the terminations to get the bend straightened. Pull = to pitch. If the string overlaps two different unisons, insert a mute = between them until you can come back to retune. If the string is two unisons on = one note, tune them slightly sharp and insert a mute between the one = original string and the adjacent note so that the two new strings are unmuted. = They will drift flat, but will do so somewhat together. Come back in 6-8 = weeks to tweak them. Charge for all your visits. =20 =20 David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net=20 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Robert Finley Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:25 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Problem Replacing Treble String =20 I am having a problem replacing treble strings. The end of the wire = always pops out of the hole in the tuning pin when I try to put the first turn = on. I have tried using the coil lifter to hold the wire in place, but that didn't work. The diameter of the first turn always becomes too large, = and I can't make a neat first turn, tight against the tuning pin. The result = is that the end comes out of the hole in the pin. The wire is so stiff and springy. The wire needs to be held firrnly and tangential to the pin, = but I am not sure how I can do this. Could anyone suggest how I could overcome this problem? Thank you very much.=20 =20 Robert Finley ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ea/97/e2/52/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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