>It must first be determined where the strings are breaking. Is it in the same >place each time? If so and that spot is at either the agraffes or Capo bar I >suggest >restringing and replacing either agraffes and /or resurfacing Capo bar. This >should cure your problem. I had a Kawai gs-70 with the same problem and >restrung over 6 months ago and no strings have broken since. There were >always several broken at each monthly visit and it wasn't from playing hard. >Try it you'll like it! > > I had a Samick that was creating strange buzzes in the bass. Another technician had already twisted most of the strings but that didn't solve it. I decided it need new bass strings, and in restringing it I found that the agraffes were loose. That is they turned past where they needed to be if they were tight to the plate. I had to add shims under many of them the get them tight. Haven't had a problem since. Dick Elrod told me that we can order, lower tension bass strings from Mapes. I suspect that they are running the tension very high to get a bright sound. This sounds similar to the set of "happy strings" they Kimball people will send you in a similar case of breakage under heavy use. Ron %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Ron Berry, RPT (Registered Piano Technician) ronberry@iquest.net Check out the Piano Page at http://www.prairienet.org/arts/ptg/homepage.html for some great information and links about pianos! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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