[CAUT] Re. Flight of Broken Bass String

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Its a Yuri Gellar thing.
Joe Goss RPT
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Olson" <jlolson at cal.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Re. Flight of Broken Bass String


> (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. 
>