[CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String

[Susan Kline]

At 05:38 PM 3/25/2006 -0800, Jim wrote:
>"BANG-swish-SLAM!!.  Just like that.

I've never had it happen, but I've heard of it.

Picturing how it gets out of the piano, supposing it
breaks at the agraffe, ... does the broken end curl
over the tail of the case, ripping the loop off the
hitch pin, before heading for points unknown? That is,
does it rotate, held by the loop? I always imagined it
flying across the room loop first, but how could it?

Can anyone confirm? Broken end first, ready to impale
whatever gets in its way?

Susan