Wound Wire breakage in churchs

[J Patrick Draine]

>Recently, I have been called to tune pianos in churchs where there was broken
>wound wire. I replaced the wound wire in one piano(Samick Grand), tuned
>and was
>on my way. 2 weeks later I am getting a call from that same church that
>there is
>another broken wire in the piano.
>
>I'm tempted to adjust let-off as to deny power to this obviously hard player.
>
>what would you do?
>
>Rook
While you'll find a variety of "fixes" in the archives (blow, letoff
distances, amplification and monitors for the pianist), let's not forget
that hammer shaping, and judicious needling to return some elasticity to
the hammers, may help reduce breakage.
Patrick