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Topic: Have you ever had a broken bass string on your upright piano?  (Read 807 times)

Offline themaximillyan

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In this upright piano "Elegy", the bass string broke off (C) the second octave. The break happened on the top (becket) string pin. You could make a loop in the break area and place the string, but then the winding of the string would go beyond and lie on the bass bridge, which is not allowed. Therefore, a decision was made to turn a string over, that is, where there were rings on the top (becket) of the pin, to make a loop, and where there was a loop, to make rings (it turned out to be 1.5) and install it. Max demonstrates that this works. If you have a broken string, it's not a sentence. Try to come up with a solution and install it, even if it's upside-down.