[CAUT] String breakage

[Brent Fischer]

Hey old friend,
    In a "ventilated box" all summer in Louisiana. Probably has a higherEMC than that Ivers and Pond on the Florida sandbar.  The issue your having is the wire is "stuck" on the string rest felt from thehigh humidity. Lubricate the wire and felt with Protek, just soak italong the wire path and wipe the wire to prevent any creep towardsthe pins. All the way to 88 my friend.  Brent


--- On Sun, 1/30/11, Sam Whitmire <samwhitmire at cox.net> wrote:

From: Sam Whitmire <samwhitmire at cox.net>
Subject: [CAUT] String breakage
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011, 3:19 PM

I am taking care of a Steinway D at McNeese State in southwest Louisiana. 
It's a brand new piano bought from a dealer in Houston. Got it up to pitch with no problems, then it was moved to the new stage in a brand new auditorium.
Stored in a ventilated "box" (no humidity control.. or damp-chaser installed).  I tuned it for the first time in the new hall at the beginning of the fall semester
after it sat in it's box all summer.  It was only 4-5 cents flat throughout  and proceeded to pitch raise.  We all know how wonderful it is to sit in front
of a new instrument like this and see what we can get out of it... well I got three broken strings (all 19 gauge), broken @ the pin like a new tuner with bad technic.
Tied them all for the concert, called the dealer, replaced the wire and... came back in Jan. to tune for the first spring concert and broke one 20 gauge wire.
Needles to say, I'm a little afraid to tune this piano. The piano other wise is very stable and with a little voicing sounds great. 
I have been a RPT for almost 30 years and have never experienced this kind of breakage before!
Any ideas... or am I just getting old and tired?
Thanks
Sam Whitmire 


Sam Whitmire
http://www.samwhitmire.com







      
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