Wound Wire breakage in churchs

David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:38:02 -0500


Phil:

If they have a hard hitting player with a Samick piano there's little you
can do.  I had a church here several years ago with a heavy hitter on a
Samick, and they broke so many bass strings they thought it must be
something I was doing and called other techs.  I didn't cry!

dave

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On 10/16/99 at 2:24 PM Phil Bondi wrote:

>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




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275



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