Wound Wire breakage in churchs

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Phil,
           The cause is excessive hammer mass, goes right along with the
heavy touch, #1 bass hammers are typically in the 12gm impact weight range,
they need to be about 10gms. Taper and tail them.Readjust the wip assist
springs
If the you are estimating for the job count on two days, as this amount of
mass reduction will require a complete regulation.
  I can give the complete out line for taming these monsters if required.
A good solution for this piano is a set of Abel lites, if the customer
wants to spring for it.
Regards Roger




At 02:24 PM 16/10/99 -0400, you 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
> 
Roger Jolly
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