[nfbpnotk] Stringing

[Shawn Brock]

hello marshall,  good to hav you abord!
i just got into stringing myself after a person i  work with offered me a 
cupple of restringing jobs.  its ben pritty easy for me to understand 
because i hav strung varrious instraments.  and i learnd how to replace 
strings on piano while takeing tuning lessons from a friend.  its not as 
hard as it may seem but neather is it easy.  i can list some of the tools i 
hav for stringing.  i buy my stuff from international piano supply, though 
you can get everything from a few different places.  if you would just like 
to look at there catalog you can find them at
www.pianosupply.com
now heres a list of some of the tools i hav bought from them.
stringing hook,
string lifter string spacer, alsoe called a coial lifter,
a stringing crank,
a rachett drive tuning hed,
a hand held coial maker,
a tuning pin punch,
a technicians hammer
a bass string twisting tool,
a music wire gage,
these are all or most of the stringing tools i hav.  theres a lot more stuff 
on the markit.  you allmost hav to take in a stringing job with some one to 
determan what tools you will want or need.  thro in some good wire cutters, 
and an asortment of screw drivers and some gluvs and this should do fine. 
stringing is a job you probably dont want to do a lot, its a lot of laber 
and not much love.  a lot of the best technicians here dont want to do menny 
stringing jobs, they like to stick with tuning, voiceing and regulateing. 
i'm the same way, but i hav not ben working in this anuff to bee so picky. 
as far as tuning advice the best thing is to try to find stor work.  it 
sounds like you are in the chicago arya there should bee a lot of work 
there.  what you need is to hav a lot of pianos to tune.  this is how you 
will build speed.  are you tuning only temperment now or are you able to 
tune the hole piano?  an.  if the hole piano, how long does it take you?  my 
first store tuning took about 3 hours.  the next day each piano took 2, and 
after a few days i got to about 1 to 2 hours per piano depending on how 
badly the piano was out in the first place.  the best practise is store 
tuning i think that way you are ganeing experience and makeing money at the 
same time.  you just hav to bee able to do a deesent job.  it can get varry 
old practiceing on a home piano i know.  i went through that myself. 
another benafit to stor tuning is that if they like you they will send you 
out on house calls whin they sell pianos to tune them.  after that the 
custamer is yours.  hope some of this helps.
Shawn Brock
Cincinnati Sound Lab
130 East Sixth Street
Cincinnati Oh.
45202
Phone: 513-349-8541
Web Site:
www.cincysoundlab.com
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:16 PM
Subject: [nfbpnotk] Stringing


> Hello Everyone,
> I'm glad to be a part of this list.  I'm new to tuning, and I have quite a 
> few questions about restringing and other procedures.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool that I can obtain that would help me with 
> restringing?  The tool I have is, and I'm not sure how to spell it, but 
> it's cerintino instacioler, and I find it tough to use, plus measuring is 
> tough as well.
>
> I'm also wondering how to pick up my speed as a piano tuner.  Some say 
> practice, but are there things I can do while practicing that can help 
> speed me up.  My vision is 20/200.  I need tips, ideas on how to speed up. 
> :)  Thanks everyone.
> Marshall Gisondi
> Villa Park, IL


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