Becket

[Jurgen Goering]

On Dec 6, 2007, Alan Barnard wrote:
> This is a very common event.
Very common event?  As in weekly or monthly?  Then why has almost no 
one experienced it?  After 26 years in the biz, I had my first one last 
month.  I posted about my broken becket  to the CAUT list, and received 
only shoulder-shrugging responses.
> The metal, presumably, is somewhat stressed and weakened making that 
> 90 degree bend.
Really?  Look at this - the break is clearly not situated in the bend.
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> You mentioned that it was a single bass string and that is also a 
> common area of the piano for breakage of this type. If you loosen one 
> of these strings, it is helpful to keep the coil under some tension 
> (pull on it)  as you raise it back up to pitch so that the pulling 
> force is applied to turns around the pin and not just to the wire at 
> the becket bend.
By the way, my broken becket was on a 1-1/2 year old Yamaha P22, up in 
the treble above the dampers.


Jurgen Goering
Piano Forte Supply
(250) 754-2440
info at pianofortesupply.com
http://www.pianofortesupply.com

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