explanation(s), please

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Michael Magness wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007 9:29 AM, Annie Grieshop <annie at allthingspiano.com 
> <mailto:annie at allthingspiano.com>> wrote:
> 
>     A small Brambach grand did something yesterday that has left me
>     bamboozled.
>     I'd appreciate any information, suggestions, advice....
> 
>     When I got there, the piano was surprisingly well in tune,
>     considering its
>     overall condition.  Two trichords in the 6th octave (below the
>     break) were
>     playing chords, but the rest was pretty OK.
> 
>     I pulled one of the offending notes into tune, and almost
>     immediately one
>     string went "BANG" and dropped pitch, taking the other with it.  I
>     pulled it
>     back up -- no, it had not broken -- and then both of them did the
>     same thing
>     (big BANG, very flat).  I've had that happen after treating pins
>     with CA
>     glue, but never before, and I hadn't treated any of them at that
>     point.  (I
>     did later, but it didn't have much effect.)
> 
>     Here's the part that really confuses me:  after that happened, one
>     string of
>     a 2nd octave bichord went terribly flat on its own AND a cluster of four
>     trichords just above the break in the 6th octave also spontaneously went
>     horribly awry.  I had not touched any of them.........
> 
>     The plate does not appear to be cracked, and I didn't find anything
>     else
>     that looked particularly suspicious.  What am I missing here (other
>     than the
>     chance to call the trash collectors and get the thing hauled away)?
>      Thanks!
> 
>     Annie Grieshop
> 



I wonder if the break was along a line of hitch pins.



Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician
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