Removing all the strings and installing the entire set is the most efficient way of doing the job...while you are tuning over and over again the bass section you could always go up into the tenor while your at it...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Thomas Cole" <tcole@cruzio.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: 1/26/2006 10:25:13 PM Subject: Re: Bass String Installation >John Dorr wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Thanks for your replies regarding removing all bass strings. I was >> hoping it'd be ok to do it that way. It really seems the BEST way. I >> guess I just wondered because on the Areldge site page about >> installing the new strings ( >> http://www.pianostrings.com/howtoinstall.html ) it says to remove no >> more than four at a time. >> >> I wonder why they'd say that? >The last time I changed bass strings only (Yamaha C3), I did one note at >a time. I didn't have to retune the rest of the piano when I was done. >Another time I removed all the bass strings first (Yamaha G2), then >restrung. It really affected the tuning of the tenor section. >The best way to do it would depend upon certain factors but I wouldn't >worry about plate breakage. >Tom Cole >_______________________________________________ >Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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