(curious) ssssssssnn: > Here you have a piano professor who routinely busts wire > right and left. He knows he does it. Why doesn't he think about > what part of his playing is doing it, when other pianists with > MASSIVE sounds aren't breaking anything? I don't know, but this whole thread about flying bass strings and people who have mysterious powers to break strings without really slamming them is starting to creep me out. I had a case a few years back of an autistic young man who broke strings constantly -- new strings and old. I'd go over there and replace bass and treble strings every couple of months. I finally had the chance to watch him play. He wasn't loud or obviously overpowering. He had a very "choppy" style, insofar as I could identify it, and he could play long, difficult pieces purely from memory. Sure enough, he broke a new bass string (replaced a few months ago) while playing. Thank God this was on a console, or the string doubtless would have launched like an ICBM and taken out a school bus or something. :-% Jeff O.
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