How do I work with and replace broken tarbs (sympathetic strings)?
A Replacing the Tarbs: Remove the broken string’s peg and remove the broken string from the peg noting the way it was threaded on the peg. Make a loop on one end of the replacement string. Making the loops is a little difficult at first but you’ll soon get the knack of getting them tight enough so they don’t de-tune themselves. Thread the unlooped end of the replacement string though the small bone grommet in the neck and using a hooked tool, hook it out through the peg hole. You can make this hook from a paper clip by unwinding it from the outside and leaving the smallest hook part. The large size of paper clips work the best. Thread the string through the hole in it’s peg twice using the same method as you noted when you examined the broken string’s attachment to the peg. Wind a little of the string onto the peg and, while pulling on the part of the string that protrudes from the grommet in the fingerboard to maintain a little constant tension, push the peg back into it’s hole in the
