[CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String

[David Ilvedson]

That's written the score...;-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 3/25/2006 6:47:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String


>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