breaking bass strings

[PAT A RALPH]

Mark,

Breaking between the Bass bridge and the hitch pin??  If they break at the
top pin/speaking length side of the bass bridge, that is a second place they
will break AND FOR THE SAME REASON.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 5:20 AM
Subject: Re:breaking bass strings


>
>
> 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