What brand?? Martin harpsichords are pretty high tension devices and if they go sharp in higher humidity they'll break strings. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:22 PM To: CAUTlist Subject: [CAUT] Harpsichord popping strings H Cauters, One of our harpsichords pops strings all by itself! I have to replace strings all the time and it's rarely played. I used to think it was excessive humidity in this sub-basement room, but now again, 3 more strings have popped in the last week or so and the humidity is very low. Our other two harpsichords almost never break strings and also hold their tune much better than this one, and played about equally. What's going on with it? Any ideas? Thanks Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101011/3a8f3ff8/attachment.htm>
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