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Fischer Grand - day 4

5/17/2011

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Getting the new strings on is time consuming.  I takes awhile to measure out the proper length of music wire, install it on a tuning pin, and drive it into the pinblock.... and then do that 245 more times.
What's important is to make sure the strings have a proper coil around the pins.  This helps stabilize the tuning.  A sign of a good technician is how well the string coils are, and how uniform they look.  (Guitarist:  Make good tight coils without overlapping when installing new guitar strings, and the tuning will be more stable).

At this point, I'm only able to do the plain strings.  The copper-wound bass strings had to be custom ordered, and they haven't arrived yet!  Hopefully soon.  Time is ticking!
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And I also started installing the new hammers.  Setting the samples (the ends of each section) allows me to line up the new strike point (top of the hammer) with the old strike point.  
I didn't want to risk breaking any hammer shanks because they seemed very brittle.   So I installed new ones with the hammers.  It's very typical to install new parts when the old ones might be good enough.  The amount of labor involved with dealing with old parts usually can exceed the cost of just buying new ones.  Just installing new parts can sometimes be cheaper overall.
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Cheryl Ingram
5/17/2011 11:31:37 am

This is so cool Dave! What a neat website and the piano looks amazing. I can't wait to see the finished product.

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Travis Leeds
5/18/2011 11:57:09 am

Is this a rescue?

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Dave
5/19/2011 09:54:08 am

This is a old piano that belonged to an old lady that recently passed away, and the grandson wants to rebuild it in memory of her.

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