---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You might try this: Gligor Tashkovich Representative Seiler Pianoforte America, L.P. SeilerPianosNA@aol.com In New York, I believe. He might be able to help. He's not a tech I don't believe, but he might be able to put you in contact with someone who can help. Avery At 01:48 AM 5/27/05, you wrote: >HI Barbara, > >I've worked on a 240 in recent times, but it is no more than 4-5 years >old. No string breakage as of yet. Lots of frontscale noise, >though. It's a fine line between softening it enough and killing it on >those pianos. > >I tune many Seilers, and many have had a wide variety of small problems, >but never anything like you describe. I'd say try Seiler tech support, >but there really isn't any in the US at the moment that I know of. I've >been frustrated by this in working with customers with legitimate warranty >issues. > >Keep us posted. If my 240 starts breaking strings, I'll let you know... > >Dave Stahl > >In a message dated 5/26/05 3:20:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >piano57@flash.net writes: >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/eb/56/1e/4f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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