Richard: I think soft hammers break more strings than hard ones. Why? Because the pianist wants a certain sound for the fff climax of the piece. If the hammers are soft, he/she has to hit the keys harder. Still not enough sound, hit them harder yet. Bang! It happens all the time. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/5/2002 at 11:21 AM Richard Brekne wrote: >We just put a new set of Origional S&S hammers on a B here, the older ones >were very hard and packed down... but we hadnt experienced string breakage >for a long time and its not really been a problem on this instrument... but >when the new hammers went on (they were quite a bit softer even before >needling) whammo... suddenly 4 unisisons in the top octave and a half >busted. > >After voicing (which required a bit of juice in the top octave) and a bit >of shaping there have been no more string breakage. > >So ....like Wim asks... what causes the strings to break ? > >-- >Richard Brekne >RPT, N.P.T.F. >Bergen, Norway >mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no >http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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