Changing string on older Triplett

[kryptoleadonium]

After some time, another string broke on my Triplett harp. I’d forgotten that the hole in the tuning pins is right next to the body of the instrument. The string in question is the E, although it appears I was equally inept with the D string as well at some time.

Try as I might, I couldn’t get the string to wrap the pin evenly (as on the F string), especially as it has to go over the bridge pin at the beginning of the replacement process. The Triplett site is no help, as the video shows a regular pin and the string wrapping toward the harp.

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[balfour-knight]

This old style of pin that Triplett used never made good sense to me. My advice would be for you to purchase new tuning pins with regular holes, so that you could wind them toward the neck (wood) of the harp.

[kryptoleadonium]

That seems a LITTLE extreme, but thanks for the suggestion. I shot Triplett a note. It bugs me that I can’t seem to figure out how it works just by looking at it.

[kryptoleadonium]

Just got a nice note from Debbie Triplett. If I’d watched the video all the way through, I’d have seen that it does show how to replace the string with a pin whose hole is next to the harp. Oops…

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 4 days ago by kryptoleadonium.

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