Broken String

[Alan R. Barnard]

Aw, James their just funnin' ya. There IS some danger of damage to the piano
and, if you don't get a good becket and coil the strings life and
fine-tunability (?) may be less than par.

A more interesting question: How did it break? During tuning? By ... whom?
If you have a qualified tuner-tech, call him/her. If not, why not?

Learning to tune and repair by working on just one piano a couple of times a
year? Sheeesh ... if so, get a real good tuning from a pro and see how good
that Yamaha can sound. Then you can make a logical decision about which you
value more, "fiddling with stuff" or preserving the value and musical
quality of a good piano.

Just my $.02

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gammon" <jtg5f@cms.mail.virginia.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: Broken String


> Did I miss something?  Is this request unusually outlandish?  Did I
> somehow indicate that I wanted the string pre-tuned, or even thought
> that such a thing was possible?  I just happen to be a guy who likes
> to fiddle with stuff, and wouldn't mind the experience of putting the
> new string in myself.  My understanding is that a new string costs
> around $10, so unless this understanding is wrong, it's worth breaking
>
> another one (or two) to a tinkerer like myself to have the experience
> of re-stringing it. I know how to tune it to a unison with the
> other E3 string.  Perhaps I stand to do serious damage to the piano
> somehow?  If this is the case, by all means, I'll have a registered
> technician do it.
>
>    Confusedly,
>
>       jame