verrry interesting!! :-)

[Richard Brekne]

Do me a favour Jim.

Make a note of how good a fit the pinblock had to the plate. Just curious about
another related claim.

RicB

JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:

> We have often spoken of plate stress and how it is transferred to other
> sections/notes as a string(s) broke or were loosened. I have never seen a
> better example than the little Apollo grand I am removing the strings
> from.......
> The bass strings are out and I was in the process of removing tension from
> the tenor section.....when 'pong''' a string broke in the octave 5/6
> section!! as I kept removing tension from the tenor, strings kept popping in
> the 5/6 area...a total of six altogether
>  As I was relieving tension in the 5/6 area the strings in the top section
> 6/7/8 starting breaking also !!
>  Now the strings that broke were all kinda really rusty and broke fairly
> easily but I thought it was a perfect example of plate stress and stress
> transferance............
> I have never had this happen to me before.
>
> Jim Bryant (FL)
> p.s. the plate is a full perimeter plate.
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