Breaking a String

[David Skolnik]

John -
Your post offers hours of amusement and useful information, but 1) he 
could practice his knots on a plain piece of wire, for hours, and 2) 
he wanted practice in replacing strings, not knot replacing them.  I 
hope he meant plain wire strings, as otherwise it might start getting 
expensive.  I don't see why he wouldn't just let down the tension, 
remove the beckets from tuning pin holes, snip off coils, if 
necessary, and remove string. (he could save the string to practice 
knots, or not.) I am most curious about these instructions that were 
purportedly previously posted to the list.

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson,  NY


At 02:56 PM 7/22/2008, you wrote:


>I'd practice splicing it first.  To do that, you want it to break at 
>the tuning pin.  Just keep turning it until it breaks.  It can be a 
>fourth or fifth high before it breaks.  Or you could do it the 
>boring way ... with a becket breaker, or nip it with a pliers.
>
>After splicing in the non-speaking length, cut off your 
>splice.  Then practice splicing in the speaking length (assuming 
>it's a bass string).  You will need to remove some of the copper 
>winding to do this.
>
>You could even practice splicing it on the hitch pin end.  You'll 
>have to make a loop, then splice it on the remaining wire.  Should 
>keep you busy for several minutes. <G>
>
>Oh ... remember to use a dummy pin to make your coils.  And to back 
>out your original tuning pin 1 1/2 turns (instead of 3 1/2).
>
>--
>JF

>On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matthew Todd 
><<mailto:toddpianoworks at att.net>toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote:
>I will be practicing string replacement on my Yamaha U-1.  But 
>first, I need a string to replace.
>
>What is the proper procedure for breaking a string?  I think this 
>was posted on the list not too long ago, but I can't find it.
>

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