This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi all, Just wondering if anybody out there can tell me anything about Seiler = pianos, specifically, the 8' grand, model 240(?) made 13 or 14 years = ago. I serviced one when it was new for a few years until I moved away. = I remember having to stay on top of the voicing to keep it from getting = ugly (and to keep the front duplex from sizzling), but what I remember = most of all was the time I was tuning and a bass string broke, FLEW OUT = of the piano across the room and hit an armoire. Whew! On another = visit, a treble wire broke while I was tuning. So, in 3 or 4 years 2 = strings broke. Then I moved away. For a long time, I wondered if = somehow I could have had my tuning hammer on the wrong pin when that = bass string gave way. :-0 10 years later, the customer finds out I'm back in the area and contacts = me (that was nice). I guess the string breakage problem got pretty bad = and perhaps the tech that followed me, didn't voice much, if at all. I = imagine the piano could have gotten ugly fairly quickly between not = voicing and having strings replaced here and there. It turns out that = the piano has been restrung and some action work was done by an expert = from out of town. :-) I contacted the tech who did the work and asked = if the piano had been rescaled, he said no. So, I guess I could be = looking at the same problems all over again. Here's the question: Are these pianos prone to string breakage? Is = there something about the scale? The piano is played a lot, and I = *could* be mistaken, but I don't think the problem is player abuse. Any comments? Thanks, Barbara Richmond, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a7/02/c9/0c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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