Questions & WARNING--Gimme a break!

[Ron Nossaman]

>I turned all strings DOWN on the first pull in order to break (pop!) the 
>CA grip on the pins, but maybe there was still a pretty good grip on pins 
>of the broken strings because it seems like they were offering a lot of 
>resistance just before the string gave.

That wasn't the pins offering the increased resistance, it was the strings.


>Questions:
>
>1. Anyone else have strings breaking after heavy, thoroughly dried CA? Any 
>ideas to prevent trouble?

None. CA has absolutely nothing to do with the strings breaking - NOTHING. 
The Thub thub sound ought to be an indication of the condition of the 
strings, which will then do what they will do when they decide to do it 
regardless of the measures you attempt to take to prevent their doing it to 
you.


>2. Does anyone duplicate steel-wound strings, or must I get copper subs? 
>And who REALLY knows how to dup a steel string in copper that will 
>reasonably work in the scale?

I know of no way at all (much less a reasonable one) to specify a single 
new replacement string of any flavor, manufacturing, or ethnic persuasion 
that will sound even remotely like the old dead string-like objects 
surrounding it in the old dead piano it's going into. At a certain point, 
you have to call the time of death and either give it up, or schedule a 
more extensive resurrection.

Ron N