String breaker Too

[Willem Blees]

Phil

Having a monitor for this piano might help, but you're also dealing with an environmental problem in the bar. There are huge changes in humidity and temperature, caused by warm bodies, hot lights, and lots of drinks and cigarette smoke.?Add to that that you're constantly replacing strings, which will also make the? piano unstable, and the piano doesn't stand a chance. 

The bad news is that the piano is constantly going out of tune. The good news is that the bar owner has the sense to have you in there to tune the piano and replace the strings. Don't do anything different or drastic to the piano. Just keep coming back and make money. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
www.bleespiano.com
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: PJR <pryan2 at the-beach.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:52 am
Subject: String breaker Too


Reading Wim's solution brought to mind a similar problem: I service a small(4'11") Weber(Korean) grand in a piano bar.? It is only three years old.? They have about five piano players that take turns beating the tar out of that piano every night.? I tune it every two weeks and it is horrendously out of tune with at least two broken treble strings each time.? The tuning pins seem normally tight ( I don't have a torque wrench) and I pound the tuning in good, but it is noticeably out of tune in a matter of days.? I know that this is not the quality of piano for this venue, but my question is,? would CA gluing the pins be a solution to keep this piano in tune, being only three years old?? I've never doped a piano this young. Is there any other solution that might stop this slippage?? Would? Wim's (et al.) solution of a monitor speaker be a viable solution?
?Phil Ryan
Miami Beach


Willem Blees wrote: 
Jim

Tell the church to put a monitor speaker behind the pianist. He/she is trying to play as loud as the drummer sitting next to him/her. But since he/she can't hear the piano over all the racket, he/she plays louder. A monitor speaker right behind him/her will help. But the piano player has to do his/her part, too. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
www.bleespiano.com
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: James Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 4:00 am
Subject: String breaker



I have a Kawai model 500 in a church which constantly has broken bass strings.? All the breakage occurs from B2 up to the break.? I am getting tired of ordering replacement strings and actually order them in multiple sets now so I have several replacements on hand.? I have deregulated the action to reduce power (no, the pianist hasn't noticed) and that helped a bit, but broken strings are still an almost weekly occurance.? Any suggestions?? Would rescaling that part of the piano help?

Thanks, Jim Johnson


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