Pitch raising on older pianos

[Paul]

Clyde
I hate the string breaking event too. Just curious, do you "jump" or "react"
suddenly to other loud unexpected sounds? I wonder if this has more to do
with my displeasure of string breakage than string breakage. After the
#@%$&*^ string breaks, I don't mind the repair. Its that sudden, unexpected
loud BANG in the middle of a peaceful, tranquil tuning....

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch raising on older pianos


> 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.)
>