Phill, two at the most three considering the age of the piano and having already warned owner that the extra expense of string repair will be $10.00 per string. Joe dont work for nothin Goss ---------- > From: Phil Ryan <pryan2@bellsouth.net> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Breaking strings... > Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 7:31 PM > > 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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