Pitch raising on older pianos

[Kristinn Leifsson]

WIMP!
Take the pain and love it! :)
Adopt a "well, there goes the first one" attitude.
Doug Smith, who lives in San Diego now, once had a customer behind him 
while he broke a string... uhm... WHILE A STRING BROKE, I should say.  The 
customer didn´t notice anything, until he said exactly that.

But yeah, I feel that way too sometimes when going down the bass.
Doesn´t everybody here recognize that split second feeling that you get a 
nanosecond before the string breaks?

Hang in there Clyde!

Kristinn


At 07:19 1.9.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>I wrote many moons ago that I am almost paranoid about breaking 
>strings.  I got
>over some of that.  However, I have two clients with pianos that I've been
>servicing regularly over about ten years with relatively little 
>problem.  Then,
>all of a sudden, two single-wound strings tear during the same 
>tuning!  Call me
>a wimp, but I find it almost impossible to get myself to go back, even though
>I'm not causing the breakage.  At least the one had overlapping coils.
>
>Clyde
>
>kam544@flash.net wrote:
>
> > Been there once.  Just starting out on a clean looking Baldwin Howard and
> > POW, POW, two bass strings in the double string area snapped.  Froze in my
> > tracks like that deer thing.  Customer was right there too.  Said, "In all
> > my days this was freaky and shouldn't be happening."  (At this time
> > _Twilight Zone_ started to play in my head.)