[CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String

[Susan Kline]

At 07:53 PM 3/25/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>Yes, I'd say so. The longer strings are stretched farther physically (if 
>not by percentage), so they have a longer acceleration power curve in 
>which to get up to speed.
>
>Ron N


I was a freshman at Oberlin, attending an orchestra rehearsal, when a pianist
playing a Bartok concerto broke one of the lowest singles of a D. It sounded
like a rifle shot. Don't remember it flying across the room into the first
violins, at least.

Susan