Stephen, Yes. A customer's small daughter knocked over a vase of flowers on the baby grand piano that had been recently restrung by someone else. The vase broke, the water spilled onto the wound strings, and the core wire broke on some of them. I serviced this piano for the first time in November 2000, replaced nine strings with custom made duplicates and cleaned out the broken glass. Several other strings still had obvious corrosion on the winding. Two years later (last fall) another string tore, so I replaced that one, too. If the customer hadn't appeared to be of limited means, it probably would have been better to replace all the strings that showed any corrosion, but this was the first and only time I ran into this situation, so I did what seemed right at the time. Some of those stained strings may never tear; time will tell. I believe the winding did not tear on any of these. Schaff did a good job working with such poor samples. Regards, Clyde Hollinger, RPT Stephen Airy wrote: > Speaking of breaking strings, has anyone ever had a bass string break IN > the winding, or had the winding AND the core wire break and the two > segments separate from each other?
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