Matthew, My opinion is the strings break readily on the Mason because of damage already done. The former technician reshaped the hammers (poor job), but the damaged strings remain. The piano has excessive hammer blow distance. When I was there to see it I noticed the action totally out of regulation. So that you have no evenness to the touch. Control is a big problem. The piano plays like a tank. It needs the work I described to you desperately. There is no magic formula short of the proper work done on a consistent basis with a quality technician monitoring the piano. Hammer shape, string height, and regulation should be maintained. Sorry to keep singing the same song Matthew. Ed << How come I break strings so easily on the M & H, and I can practice and play the living daylights out of a 1901 Story and Clark upright (original parts), and not even stir the tuning job? Now I understand that the M & H needs work done on it to prevent string breakage, longer tuning stability, etc., but this Story and Clark has been sitting and hardly had any work done to it (a tuning once a year), much longer than the M & H has or ever will. One more question in this missive... . What can cause a hammer shank to crack from dynamic playing rather than the string breaking? >>
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