On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:26:52 -0600 "PAT A RALPH" <KENNETH.GERLER@prodigy.net> writes: > Mark, > > Where are they breaking? In St. Louis I service a lot of Gospel > type churches where they use the damper pedal improperly causing the > strings to break at the agraffe or upper bridge (depending on whether a > vertical or grand). > > Baldwin did a study holding the damper pedal down and repeatedly > hitting the same string/note and broke the strings in 10 minutes! > > Ken Gerler Ken - The majority of the strings in this 1 yr old 7' Baldwin are breaking between the bass bridge and the hitch pin - about midway! I had no idea 10 minutes of Gospel music could be so powerful... Mark Potter bases-loaded@juno.com
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