String Info Please

[Alan Barnard]

Great info, thanks!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/19/2008 1:28:16 PM
Subject: String Info Please


>If the other string of the unison is there mic the core and wrap.

>Measure hitch pin to a point in line with it's mate's wrap.
>Measure the length of the mate's wrap.

>Now to order a string which will ultimately pull to those specs
>and align well in the string series:
>Subtract 1/8" from the hitch pin to start of wrap length.
>Subtract 1/4" from the length of wrap length.

>If replacing a missing single string, measure to points aligned
>with it's neighbors. Masking tape placed across the gap at the
>ends of the wrap indexes well.

>Specify to the string maker to make the string 'to these specs'
>so they won't do something similar to accommodate the stretch
>factor and your replacement will be way off. damhik.
>-- 

>Regards,

>Jon Page


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