STRING REPLACEMENT GUIDE
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1. Wear eye protection (this is important!) as you carefully pull the broken wire off the tuning pins with the pliers. Uncoil the replacement wire.
2. Loosen the tuning pins three turns counter-clockwise--not more! For all but the bottom wire, you will need to loosen two tuning pins.
3. Slide the replacement wire one half inch through one of the tuning pin's hole as shown in the first illustration. Note that the wire winding around the pin is below the hole.
4. Use needle-nosed pliers to bend the half inch of wire protruding from the hole upward.
5. Keep the wire taut and turn the tuning pin clockwise three turns, making sure the wire which winds around the pin ends up below the tuning pin hole (see illustration two). Keeping the wire taut and below the tuning pin hole is very important.
6. Loop the wire around both pegs on the left side of the Music Maker.
7. Slide the wire through the next pin's holes. With your left hand, pull down on the wire four string's worth of slack (pull it down a distance of four strings). The remainder of the wire protrudes from the hole. Remember that the wire must go around the pin in a clockwise fashion, and only then through the hole, as in illustration one.
8. Turn the last tuning pin three turns clockwise (the slack will be taken up). Keep the wire taut as you turn the pin. Remember to keep the wire which winds around the pin below the tuning pin's hole (see illustration number two again).
9. As soon as the wire will stay on the pin cut the excess wire from both pins (wear eye protection). Cut as close to the edge of the tuning pin as possible. And be careful as the wire is quite sharp.
10. Tune your Music Maker.