String breakage

[Max Zuboff]

I've once seen a piano with small (but distinct) scratches on the strings
near the bridge pins - apperently someone had been seating the strings by
placing a screwdriver (or a chisel ?) againsts a string and tapping with a
hammer at the other end. They didn't tend to break at the bridge, thought,
but still - examine the strings at the bridge, parhaps some wizard has once
been trying to seat them in a manner like that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "valentino tessaro" <vatessar@tin.it>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: String breakage


> Hello, I am Valentino.
> I have a problem with a Yamaha U3 silent (2 years of life): the
> strings are breaking at the bridge. At now the are 25 the break
> strings (2 in the bass section and the rest on the tenor and treble
> section). Not one string is broken at the capotasto, all are breaking
> at the bridge: what is the problem?
> Thanks to all
> Valentino
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