In a message dated 10/16/99 11:44:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tito@PhilBondi.com writes: << Recently, I have been called to tune pianos in churches 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 >> We attend a charismatic church and I am constantly replacing broken strings, as well as tweak out of tune strings between services. Even strings I just replaced. Churches that use a full band for worship are ones that tend to have breakage problems. Chances are the pianist is attempting to hear him or herself playing above the decibels of the band. It is best to have the piano monitor loud enough to hear. Setting the let off wider will help. Or pray for the pianist not to play so hard. Sometimes the spirit flows and the strings will break anyway. Hope this helps. Dave Peake, RPT Portland Chapter Oregon City, OR
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