Dear List, I'm a newbie at tuning and ran across this situation- I was tuning an old (1920's) Edward Mason grand with the original strings. A quarter of the way through, pop! broke a treble string. No problem, I need the practice installing strings.Then pop!, another one. Pop...pop...pop...all the way up to ten broken treble strings, five or six notes apart, before I quit. Yes, I used liquid wrench on the vbar and agraffes. My question is- how many strings should one break before declaring the piano untunable and in need of a restringing or rebuilding. The owner is only interested in having it "tuned." Any advice? Phil Ryan Associate, PTG pryan2@bellsouth.net
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