Phil, First piece of advise, use the Liquid Wrench on rusted bolts on a car ONLY ! Second, lower the tension a bit first to release the rust/friction at the v-bar; not much, just til you hear a ping; then pull it up. Thrid, Keep the Liq. Wrench as far from pianos as possible. When should it be restrung? When the customer has the money and the piano is worth it. Otherwise, patch as best you can and maybe even leave it flat. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 09:31 PM 7/2/98 -0400, you wrote: >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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